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SF bursts into a rainbow of excitement for the 45th Pride celebration & parade
By - posted 6/26/2015 No Comment

The whole city comes alive in a rainbow burst of excitement at the 2015 San Francisco Pride Celebration.

45th Annual San Francisco Pride Celebration
– Saturday, June 27, 2015 | Noon to 6 pm
– Sunday, June 28, 2015 | 11 am to 6:30 pm
Parade – Sunday at 10:30am
Civic Center, San Francisco
FREE (The festival requests a $5-10 optional donation)

With over 200 parade contingents, 300 exhibitors, and more than 20 stages and venues, the San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration and Parade is the largest LGBT gathering in the nation. Gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer and straight revelers fill up Civic Center for a weekend for concerts, DJs, performances and speeches and the parade on Sunday morning.

Pride Parade Route

The 2015 Pride Parade is Sunday at 10:30am – starting at Market & Beale, heading down Market St. and ends at 8th Street.

2015 Pride Stages & Entertainment Lineup

There’s plenty of Pride spirit to spare with the Pink Saturday block party, plus happy hours and celebrations all around town.

Pink Saturday “Pink Party”

The night before the Pride Parade, The Pink Party takes over the streets of the Castro by closing them to cars and then pumping multiple sound stages to celebrate a long-time tradition of bringing a fabulous, queer and community-focused street party to raise money for local, LGBT non-profit organizations.

In 2015, the SF LGBT Center takes the reins of the party to bring you five blocks of DJs, drag and live acts on four stages, food trucks and more.

2015 Pink Party Castro Block Party
Saturday, June 27, 2015 | 4:30-7:30 pm
Castro and Market, SF
FREE
but they would love to see everyone donate at least $10 at the gate. By pre-registering you will able to join faster entry lines.

2015 Entertainment

  • Disco Daddy featuring DJ Bus Station John
  • Dyke March Stage featuring DJ Rumor La Rumorosa, DJ Slum Beautiful, Faded Fox and Marga Gomez (MC)
  • Gaymous
  • Global Village featuring DJ Casa Blanca, DJ Tori and DJ Lamont
  • Hard French featuring Tom Temprano and Brown Amy
  • Khalil Sullivan
  • Monster Show featuring Sugah Betes, Roxy Cotton Candy, Sue Casa, U-Phoria, BearOnce and DJ MC2
  • Rasa Vitalia
  • Shawna Virago
  • Trixxie Carr
  • Tantra Party featuring DJ Liam Shy and DJ Pornstar
  • U-Haul featuring DJ Chelsea Starr and DJ Skelar Love

They will feature food trucks along Market Street where the Dyke March will once again finish its parade from Dolores Park. The party ends at 7:30 pm, so you can go to bed, get some shut eye, and be rested and ready to do it all again on Sunday at the Pride Parade downtown.

Please note, the street fair does not allow open consumption of alcohol or permit open containers.

Photo credit: David Gilmore


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