Cancelled for Pride 2016: Pink Saturday “Pink Party” | Castro
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Castro & Market | Castro and Market Street, San Francisco, CA
Submitted by the Event Organizer
2024 San Francisco Pride Festival & Parade (June 29-30)
The San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration and Parade is one of the largest LGBT gatherings in the nation. The two-day celebration is free and open to all. The Parade takes place on the last Sunday of June annually. The 2024 theme is Beacon of Love.
Pride Celebration and Rally
June 29-30, 2024 | 11a-6p
Civic Center Plaza, San Francisco
FREESaturday (June 29) headliner is Adore Delano. Sunday (June 30) headliner is Billy Porter.
54th Annual SF Pride Parade and March
Sunday, June 30, 2024 | Starting at 10:30 AM
Market Street from Embarcadero / Beale to 8th Street ending at Civic Center
FREEThe Pride Parade will be on on June 30, 2024. Typically, the parade begins at 10:30am and heads down Market Street from Embarcadero to the Celebration at Civic Center (around 8th). The parade has over 200 contingents and may go on for over 4 hours.
With over 200 parade contingents and exhibitors, and 4-5 different stages (depending on the day), the San Francisco Pride Celebration and Parade remains the largest gathering of the LGBTQ+ community and allies in the nation.
The Celebrity Grand Marshall is Billy Porter, as well as Sunday’s Main Stage Headline Performer.
The night before the Pride Parade, The Pink Party typically 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 fabulous, queer parties, but… unfortunately in 2016 the party is cancelled.
From SFist: “Coordinated and run by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence since 1995, the group last year declined to continue organizing the event as incidents of violence and the growing need for security made it an increasingly costly — not to mention an at times gay-unfriendly — affair. Last year (you surely remember) the LGBT Community Center swooped in, renamed the event Pink Party (because the Sisters are holding onto the Pink Saturday name), and held it earlier in the day. The Center is unable to do so this year, Castro Supervisor Scott Wiener told the BAR, and no other organization has offered to deal with it either.”
Disclaimer: Please double check event information with the event organizer as events can be canceled, details can change after they are added to our calendar, and errors do occur.
Cost: FREE*
