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SAN FRANCIS GAY PRI PARA 2022 DAT, TIM, ROUTE AND RTRICTNS
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The first event remblg the morn San Francis Pri para and celebratn was held 1970 - wh a march down Polk Street and a small "gay-" Goln Gate Park. Today, San Francis Gay Pri is anized by the San Francis Lbian, Gay Bisexual, Transgenr Pri Celebratn, which enavors to te the world, memorate LGBTQ history, celebrate culture, and liberate people.
The para nsists of hundreds of groups om var anizatns cludg some well-known like Dyk on Bik and Parents, Fai, and Friends of Lbians and Gays (PFLAG). Celebratns for San Francis Gay Pri ually beg on the Saturday at the cy’s Civic Center Plaza.
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The highlight of SF Pri is arguably the San Francis Gay Pri Para, which will take place on Sunday morng, June 30, at 10:30am. San Francis Gay Pri featur over 20 muny-n spac cludg mic stag, muny events, a LGBT fay garn, a Queer Youth space and a Women’s stage. Queer-iendly saloons and dance halls that dotted s Barbary Coast red-light district the followg eventually gave way to bars and clubs like Mona’s, Focch's, and Li-Po Lounge, which served San Francis’s explodg LGBTQIA+ populatn, many of them ex-servicemen who were discharged om the ary for beg s electrifyg gay nightlife, far-out artists like Allen Gsberg and The Cockett, and groundbreakg gay-rights anizatns (the Mattache Society, Dghters of Bilis, and the Society for Individual Rights), San Francis was dubbed “The Gay Capal of Ameri” by Life magaze 1964.
Occurred at Compton's Cafeteria the Tenrlo the gay liberatn movement gaed steam, the Castro district beme ground zero for queer activism. Lol mera shop owner Harvey Milk beme the cy’s first openly gay polician when he was elected to the San Francis Board of Supervisors 1977, famoly fightg to feat Proposn 6, which would have banned gays and lbians om teachg California public schools. In 2004, then-mayor Gav Newsom permted San Francis Cy Hall to grant licens to gay upl—an act that helped pave the way for the legalizatn of same-sex unns all 50 stat, which me the summer of 1970, San Francis’s LGBTQIA+ muny has held an annual para and ftival—part celebratn, part prott—that's known today as San Francis Pri.
If you’re lookg to celebrate Pri San Francis this year while supportg gay bs and at a time when queer rights rema at risk, here’s how (and where) to do . Culmatg at Civic Center, the two-hour para wh nearly 200 ntgents clus hometown favor Versaphere, Cheer San Francis, and the San Francis Lbian/Gay Freedom and open to the public, San Francis Pri regularly attracts as many as one ln atten wh s para and weekend-long celebratn at Civic Center Plaza. The two-day Gay Pri Ftival featur vendor booths, food and drks, and plenty of performers—this year cludg pop stars Hayley Kiyoko and Prcs Nokia, and Grey’s Anatomy actor Jake Borelli.