San Francisco is a very gay city year round, but in June with the Gay Pride march, it becomes ... um ... well, GAY. The rainbow flag replaces the American one throughout the city (or sometimes the American one m orphs mysteriously into a rainbow-hued variation), and thousands of people flock in from all over to party. There is a woman's march on Saturday lead by the awesome Dykes on Bikes, and the bigger main parade on Sunday.
Marriage was a big theme this year - not that I saw much of the parade itself, because I marched with the Google group (which had huge balloons, swarms of crazy bikes, and included the lead engineer as a friendly gesture from management). I was a contingent monitor, and also helped out with some of the monitoring during the celebration afterwards - essentially pushing people out of the way so that ambulance carts could get through to people who needed help.
San Francisco is a very gay city year round, but in June with the Gay Pride march, it becomes ... um ... well, GAY. The rainbow flag replaces the American one throughout the city (or sometimes the American one m orphs mysteriously into a rainbow-hued variation), and thousands of people flock in from all over to party. There is a woman's march on Saturday lead by the awesome Dykes on Bikes, and the bigger main parade on Sunday.
Marriage was a big theme this year - not that I saw much of the parade itself, because I marched with the Google group (which had huge balloons, swarms of crazy bikes, and included the lead engineer as a friendly gesture from management). I was a contingent monitor, and also helped out with some of the monitoring during the celebration afterwards - essentially pushing people out of the way so that ambulance carts could get through to people who needed help.
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