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2012 San Francisco Pride Parade

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Sunday, June 24, 2012 - 10:30 am | Cost: FREE
Market Street | Market Street and Montgomery Street, San Francisco, CA

Art meets politics in a fleet of floats, vehicles, and marchers along Market Street during the San Francisco Pride Parade, one the nation’s largest LGBT events and forty years running.

The SF Pride Parade offers over 200 floats snaking down Market Street and you can bet they’ll be full of feather boas, skimpy underwear, leather garbs, latex toys and a sexed-up atmosphere. Expect to see dykes on bikes, bears in straps, gays in skivvies, trannies in gowns and thousands of gawkers.

The parade is the culmination of a month of Pride-themed events in the city and the all-out celebration during this weekend culminating in the Pride Festival (Sat & Sun) in Civic Center Plaza.

San Francisco Pride Parade 2012 Theme: Global Equality
Sunday, June 24, 2012

Parade contingents generally organize their contingent’s look around a central theme: celebrating self, celebrating diversity, standing against LGBT discrimination, speaking out for one’s ideals, honoring LGBT history, recognizing friends and allies, or standing for a loved one lost. The possibilities are many.

The parade kicks off at 10:30 a.m. at Market St. & Beale and ends at Market & 8th St. in Downtown San Francisco [MAP]