where in the world is the Gay Pride Festival? We were playfully called “so hetero” last year while our bartender drew our $10 Blue Moons into plastic cups, but we all need allies, right? Here’s our guide to San Francisco Pride. We go for the parades and the parties, sure, but also we go to stand alongside a community for the common goal of equality. Since moving to the City a few years ago, San Francisco Pride has become one of our favorite festivals to attend.
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My point? LGBT people move here from around the world to see what it’s like to be out, and thriving. If you want to change your life, you make a change. If you know who you are, you grow into it. Exposed to riches and racial diversity and poverty and art and subcultures and a nearly endless list of choices, the options to expand their worldview are everywhere.
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San Francisco is the kind of city where people go to become themselves. Boys will be boys and girls will be boys, and they’ll love each other in any combination but hey… who cares anyway?
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The city known for being at the forefront becomes a little brighter, a little louder, and a little more - well, proud! As San Francisco transitions to a city strung with colorful banners and pillaged costume shops, red-haired drag queens will chirp “Happy Pride!” inviting you inside, and the line outside of Hot Cookie will grow longer than ever. Pride in the rainbow-tinted San Francisco seems to amplify like a Gaga tune in June.