It’s a weekly series, happening each Thursday in June from 5 to 10 p.m., at the Dirty Habit bar and restaurant on the fifth floor of Hotel Zelos in San Francisco. The giveaway that evening will be a Pride rally towel (while supplies last), Thirst Trap Thursday SF Pride T-shirts will be given out to those who purchase special tickets for the game, The Oakland A’s have their Pride Night on June 11, when the team hosts the Kansas City Royals beginning at 6:40 p.m. The San Francisco Giants will host their SF Pride Day on June 5, when they take on the Chicago Cubs at 4:15 p.m. We’re building a dedicated LGBTQ platform where you can connect with your scene and be yourself with privacy and respect. Featured acts include Lavender Country, Rainbow Girls, Gangstagrass, Po’ Ramblin’ Boys, Jake Blount and Sunny War. Register at Porch Prideīluegrass Pride, the non-profit that strives to uplift LGBTQ+ artists in roots music, is hosting the month-long celebration and virtual festival Porch Pride. The program will include a homage to RuPaul, renditions of Todrick Hall’s “Nails, Hair, Hips, Heels” and “28 Barbary Lane” from Julian Hornik’s 12-movement musical, and more. San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus presents “Wired,” an all-virtual showcase celebrating LGBTQ+ Pride month, at 6 p.m.
Tickets for this socially distanced and ticketed event - where masks are to be worn at all times, except when drinking or eating - are priced $24.99–$44.99 (per film) is also the On-Field Experience package, including tickets for up to 12 guests, priced at $2,499.96.ĭoors open at 6:30 p.m. “Everybody’s Talking About Jamie,” director Jonathan Butterell’s adaptation of Dan Gillespie Sells and Tom MacRae’s musical, follows on the second night. Chu’s eagerly anticipated film adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony Award-winning musical, “In the Heights,” will be shown on the first night. It’s a two-day outdoor cinema event set for June 11-12 at the home of the San Francisco Giants - Oracle Park in San Francisco - and presented by the Framleine film festival and San Francisco Pride.ĭirector Jon M. We’re including both official SF Pride events as well as other community celebrations. The following is a look at some of the upcoming Pride events. Our theme this year, chosen by our membership, is ‘All in This Together,’ and this group of incredible activists and leaders embody that spirit perfectly.” “Above all, Pride 2021 is by and for locals, and our Grand Marshals reflect this.
“This year is obviously different from all other years, but one crucial feature remains the same, and that is our commitment to celebrating the hard work and achievements of LGBTQ+ people and organizations,” says Fred Lopez, San Francisco Pride’s executive director. Instead, expect a mix of in-person gatherings and online events as people around the Bay Area celebrate Pride in 2021. Notably, for the second year in a row, there will be no big Pride parade and celebration event in downtown San Francisco.īut #SFPride51 won’t be strictly a virtual affair, like the one we had in 2020 when COVID-19 precautions called for strict social distancing measures. Using color to establish meaning, Baker conceived a flag that would empower his “tribe” and a “rainbow of humanity” motif to represent the community’s diversity.The Pride celebration will still look much different in 2021 than what people are use to in the Bay Area. In 1978, while preparing for that year’s Gay Freedom Day celebration, City Supervisor Harvey Milk (1930–1978) and other local activists appealed to Baker, the co-chair of the Decorations Committee, to create a new symbol for the LGBTQ community to be unveiled at the event in June. He quickly became well known for his sewing skills and flamboyant creations, such as drag costumes and political banners for street demonstrations. Gilbert Baker arrived in San Francisco in 1972 during the early years of the Gay Liberation movement. Thought to have been lost for over 40 years, the fragment, shown in the banner above, was recently rediscovered and is the only known surviving remnant of the two inaugural rainbow flags. In April 2021, the GLBT Historical Society received an archival donation of an extraordinary, unique piece of history that we are unveiling during the Pride season: a fragment of one of the two monumental rainbow flags first raised on Jin San Francisco’s United Nations Plaza at the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade.ĭisplaying the original design’s eight colored stripes, it was created by Gilbert Baker and hand-stitched and dyed with the help of volunteers and friends, including Lynn Segerblom (Faerie Argyle Rainbow), James McNamara, Glenne McElhinney, Joe Duran and Paul Langlotz.