Of course, there’s lots of wild stuff to do following the Parade. The official VIP Party is close to selling out, but if you can snag a ticket, you’ll get to dance under City Hall’s Rotunda while enjoying live entertainment, beverages, and bites. There will also be over 200 vendors selling art, food, and beverages, including beer, wine, and cocktails. That party will have 20 stages and gathering spaces, including a leather alley, homo hip-hop stage, country-western dance corral, queer youth space, and faerie freedom village. The official Pride Celebration takes place at Civic Center Plaza from 11am to 6pm.
Want to join in on the festivities? Here’s everything you need to know about how to celebrate Pride in San Francisco: Leighann Renee on Unsplash Of course, we do this in the most fabulous way possible because this is San Francisco and that is simply who we are. It’s a time to put the LGBTQ+ community in the spotlight and show our support, give people whose voices have been marginalized a chance to be heard (and help ensure their voices won’t ever be diminished or disparaged again), celebrate for those who live in places where they can’t, and remind people that there’s still more work to be done. Though Pride is certainly a party it’s a lot more than that, which this year’s theme “Generations of Resistance” hopefully illuminates. That party includes a two-day festival and a parade on Sunday where over a million spectators line up along Market Street to watch 250+ contingents march through the heart of the city, led by the famous Dykes on Bikes who rev their engines and set the pace for the parade.
Pride is celebrated for all of June in San Francisco, but the official celebration actually takes place on the last weekend of the month.
Though it started small, San Francisco LGBT Pride has grown to be the largest gathering of LGBTQ+ people in the world with a mission to “educate the world, commemorate our heritage, celebrate our culture, and liberate our people.” The first Pride event in San Francisco was a “Gay-In” on June 27, 1970, exactly a year after the LGBT patrons of the Stonewall Inn in NYC’s Greenwich Village rioted in response to police harassment and arrests. Those interested in following the legendary LGBTQ+ event and connecting with community can use #SFPride52 for the latest news and social media updates.How can people change their mind about us if they don’t know who we are? ~ Harvey Milk The past two San Francisco Pride events have been curtailed by the Covid pandemic and this year will mark the first in-person edition since 2019. Pride is an important opportunity to honor the progress we’ve made and recommit ourselves to the continued fight for equality.” “Every person deserves to live and love as their authentic self every day of the year. “As we prepare to come together to celebrate San Francisco Pride this year, I’m looking forward to honoring the diversity and resiliency of our LGBTQ+ community,” said Senator Alex Padilla. The mission of the organization is to educate the world on LGBTQ+ issues, as well as commemorate the heritage, celebrate the culture, and liberate the people of all LGBTQ+ communities. The San Francisco Pride Celebration Committee is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization founded to produce the SF Pride Celebration and Parade.
“Pride gives us the opportunity to come together in solidarity to celebrate the progress that has been made, but also allows us to respond with love, activism, and radical inclusion against discriminatory laws that are being enacted across the country at an alarming rate.” “San Francisco Pride’s return to an in-person celebration this June will be a historic moment in our fight for inclusion, acceptance, and equality for all LGBTQ+ people,” says Suzanne Ford, San Francisco Pride Interim Executive Director. Now in its 52nd year the theme at the annual event will be “Love Will Keep Us Together.”
The iconic festival which features an LGBT pride parade is scheduled to take place June 25-26, 2022. Organizers this week have announced that San Francisco Pride will return to an in-person celebration.