The Rainbow Flag identified with the LGBT community was originally created by Gilbert Baker for the 1978 San Francisco Pride Parade. The event organizers each year select a theme for the event, which is reflected in the logo and the event's publicity. The name of the festival has changed over the years. įrom 1972 until 2019, the event was held each year. The following afternoon, a "Christopher Street Liberation Day Gay-In" brought some 200 people to Golden Gate Park the gathering was raided by officers from the San Francisco Police Department on Hondas and on horseback, with seven people taken into custody at Park Station, then released without charges. The first events resembling the modern San Francisco Pride parade and celebration were held on the last weekend of June 1970: Organized by the San Francisco Gay Liberation Front, a "Gay Liberation March" saw 20 to 30 people walk from Aquatic Park to Civic Center on Polk Street on Saturday, June 27. Pioneering LGBT activist Harvey Milk took this image on Gay Freedom Day in 1976. They are recruited and trained by the Parade leadership, by way of a contingent monitor training video posted on YouTube.
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The festival is traditionally held in the last full weekend in June. On the Sunday of the parade, an area of the festival called Leather Alley features fetish and BDSM oriented booths and demonstrations. It is a collection of booths, dance stages, and vendors around the Civic Center area near San Francisco City Hall. It is common for them to decorate a flatbed truck or float, along with loud dance music, or create a colorful contingent that carries a visual message out to the bystanders.Ī two-day (Saturday and Sunday) festival has grown up around the Sunday morning parade.