Cancelled for Pride 2016: Pink Saturday “Pink Party” | Castro
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Castro & Market | Castro and Market Street, San Francisco, CA
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2022 San Francisco Pride Festival & Parade (June 25-26)
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.
San Francisco Pride Board of Directors announced that music legend and two-time Grammy Award nominee, Martha Wash, will headline the Main Stage at the 52nd annual San Francisco Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Pride Celebration and Parade (Pride 52) taking place on Sunday, June 26 at Civic Center Plaza.
Pride 52 returns to an in-person Celebration and Rally with the theme of “Love Will Keep Us Together” Saturday and Sunday, June 25–26, 2022.
52nd Annual San Francisco Pride Celebration
– Festival – Saturday & Sunday, June 25 & 26, 2022 | 11a-6p
– Parade – Sunday at 10:30a – Typically down Market Street
Civic Center, San Francisco
FREEFeaturing over 200 parade contingents and exhibitors, and more than 20 community-run stages and venues, the San Francisco Pride Celebration and Parade remains the largest gathering of the LGBTQ+ community and allies in the nation.
The 2022 Community stages will include Urban Global Village Stage, produced by Christiana Remmington; API LGBT Stage, produced by Nicki Calma and SF Community Health Center; Homo Hip-Hip, produced by Ronnie and Erika Jones; Latin Stage, produced by Jamie Awad; Sober Drag Show, produced by Castro Country Club; Soul of Pride, produced by Lisa Williams; Trans Stage, produced by Maniac Films; and Women’s Stage, produced by Christie James and Jolene Linsangan.
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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*
