57-492: The San Francisco Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Celebration (formerly "International Lesbian and Gay Freedom Day", "Gay Freedom Day", and "Christopher Street West"), usually known as San Francisco Pride, is a pride parade and festival held at the end of June most years in San Francisco , California , to celebrate the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender ( LGBT ) people. The San Francisco Pride parade
114-495: A pejorative for men who love men , roughly equivalent to the English language term " pansy ". Beginning in the 1960s, the term was reappropriated by Japanese gay media: notably with the 1961 anthology Ba-ra-kei: Ordeal by Roses [ ja ] , a collection of semi-nude photographs of homosexual writer Yukio Mishima by photographer Eikoh Hosoe , and later with Barazoku ( 薔薇族 , lit. "rose tribe") in 1971,
171-515: 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. From 1972 until 2019, the event was held each year. The name of the festival has changed over the years. The event organizers each year select
228-494: A bisexual contingent for the Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights in 1987. The design of the biangles began with the pink triangle , a Nazi concentration camp badge that later became a symbol of gay liberation representing homosexuality . The addition of a blue triangle contrasts the pink and represents heterosexuality . The two triangles overlap and form lavender, which represents
285-665: A celebrity"—neither of which befit Manning. Both the election and its nullification proved contentious. On April 29, an estimated 200 protesters disrupted the board's meeting, demanding that PFC Manning be reinstated. Supporters of Manning filed a complaint with the San Francisco Human Rights Commission . On May 12, the board said it would meet "in a larger venue after the 2013 Celebration and Parade [to] allow people from all sides of that issue and others to fully air and hear one another's viewpoints", but that it would not "let one issue, as important as it
342-492: A double crescent moon symbol of bisexuality was devised by Vivian Wagner in 1998. This symbol is common in Germany and surrounding countries. The ace ring , a black ring worn on the middle finger of one's right hand, is a way asexual people signify their asexuality. The ring is deliberately worn in a similar manner as one would a wedding ring to symbolize marriage. Use of the symbol began in 2005. The aro ring ,
399-525: A fundraiser for the 1991 San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade (as it was called then) and quickly became a national trend. In October 2009, LGBT activist Amy Andre was appointed as Executive Director of the San Francisco Pride Celebration Committee, making her San Francisco Pride's first openly bisexual woman of color Executive Director. Also in 2009, Asexual Visibility and Education Network members participated in
456-568: A metaphor for sexual pursuits. Violets and their color became a special code used by lesbians and bisexual women. The symbolism of the flower derives from several fragments of poems by Sappho in which she describes a lover wearing garlands or a crown with violets. In 1926, the play La Prisonnière by Édouard Bourdet used a bouquet of violets to signify lesbian love. When the play became subject to censorship, many Parisian lesbians wore violets to demonstrate solidarity with its lesbian subject matter. White lilies have been used since
513-460: A special edition Blåhaj in the colors of a transgender pride flag, with the winner's name embroidered on its fin. Daniel Thaxton and Bernie Toale created a lavender rhinoceros symbol for a public ad campaign to increase visibility for gay people in Boston helmed by Gay Media Action-Advertising; Toale said they chose a rhinoceros because "it is a much maligned and misunderstood animal" and that it
570-491: A statute which made homosexual acts between males a crime. Lesbian sexual relations were illegal only in Austria and historians differ on whether they were persecuted or not, due to lack of evidence. Some lesbians were imprisoned with a black triangle symbolizing supposed "asociality", this symbol was later reclaimed by postwar lesbians. The biangles symbol of bisexuality was designed by artist Liz Nania, as she co-organized
627-467: A symbol of LGBTQ culture due to earlier associations between the animal and rainbows being extended to the rainbow flag created in 1978 by Gilbert Baker . Alice Fisher of The Guardian wrote in 2017, "The unicorn has also done its bit for the LGBT community in the last century... Rainbows and unicorns are so intrinsically linked (the association is also a Victorian invention) that it's unsurprising that
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#1732791011931684-495: A symbol. The icon has established itself as an example of the phenomenon of reappropriation of elements of the anti-LGBTQ discourse in contemporary society through social networks. Other versions derived from the original symbol involving other flags belonging to the LGBTQ community, such as the transgender flag , or the bisexual flag , have also become popular. In the 1970s, the modern handkerchief (or hanky) code emerged in
741-644: A theme for the event, which is reflected in the logo and the event's publicity. The original rainbow flags flew at the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade (as it was called then) on June 25, 1978. In 1986 Autumn Courtney was elected co-chair of San Francisco's Lesbian Gay Freedom Day Pride Parade Committee; she was the first openly bisexual person to hold this sort of position in the United States. Freedom Rings , designed by David Spada in 1991, were originally sold as
798-480: A white ring, worn on the middle finger on one's left hand is a way aromantic people signify their identity on the aromantic spectrum. Use of the symbol began in 2015. This was chosen as the opposite of the ace ring which is a black ring worn on the right hand. Another symbol often used by aromantic people is arrows or an arrow as the word arrow is a homophone to the shortened word aro used by aromantic people to refer to themselves. Ace playing cards , due to
855-483: Is Suzanne Ford, who in 2023 was announced as the first openly transgender person paid to be Executive Director of the San Francisco Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Pride Celebration Committee. The event is funded by a combination of community fundraising both by the pride committee and on their behalf, corporate sponsorships, San Francisco city grants, and donations collected from the participants at
912-632: Is also the sacred flower of Eros , the Greek god of love and sex, and patron of love between men. Eros was responsible for the first rose to sprout on Earth, followed by every flower and herb. Roses are a symbol of pederasty in ancient Greece : handsome boys were metaphorically called roses by their male admirers in homoerotic poems such as those by Solon , Straton , Meleager , Rhianus , and Philostratos . Animals that lovers gave as gifts to their beloved also became symbols of pederastic love, such as hares , roosters , deer , felines and oxen , as
969-416: Is an LGBT pride parade that is held on a Sunday morning as part of a two-day Festival . The route is usually west along San Francisco's Market Street , from Steuart Street to 8th Street and it runs from 10:30 am until almost 4:00 pm. Participants line up off the parade route in advance of the start of the parade. The parade consists of hundreds of contingents from various groups and organizations. Some of
1026-505: Is an LGBTQ symbol based on the ghost emoji (U+1F47B, "👻") of Android 5.0 . It is a modification of the original icon that uses a background with the colors of the rainbow flag . It became popular in Spain from April 2019 following a tweet posted on the official account of the populist far-right party Vox , after which a multitude of users belonging to the LGBTQ movement began to use it as
1083-539: Is commonly associated with LGBTQ culture, in particular the transgender community, in part due to being colored similarly to a transgender pride flag . Early origins of this are traced back to around 2020 and in 2021 IKEA ran an ad-campaign to support same-sex marriage in Switzerland featuring the shark. In response to this popularity, IKEA Canada hosted a giveaway in November 2022, offering transgender people
1140-706: Is held on the Friday before the parade while the Dyke March and trans march events are held on the Friday and Saturday nights preceding the march and rally in The Castro . The festival is run by a non-profit organization, the San Francisco Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Pride Celebration Committee. According to their web site, their mission is "to educate the World, commemorate our heritage, celebrate our culture, and liberate our people." The current Executive Director
1197-818: Is often seen as a public expression or symbol of lesbian identity, particularly on the femme side of the femme-butch spectrum . On October 31, 1969, sixty members of the Gay Liberation Front , the Committee for Homosexual Freedom (CHF), and the Gay Guerilla Theatre group staged a protest outside the offices of the San Francisco Examiner in response to a series of news articles disparaging people in San Francisco's gay bars and clubs. The peaceful protest against
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#17327910119311254-423: Is to some, overshadow the concerns and interests of the hundreds of thousands who attend SF Pride." On May 18, SF Pride selected Bebe Sweetbriar as Community Grand Marshal. On June 7, 2013, the board announced that since none of the alternatives submitted at a May 31 community forum garnered a consensus majority, the board's decision to rescind PFC Manning's grand marshalship would stand. The board also reported that
1311-805: Is unclear whether this was the first instance of the term yuri in this context, an association of yuri with lesbianism subsequently developed. In Korea and China , "lily" is used as a semantic loan from the Japanese usage to describe female-female romance media, where each use the direct translation of the term – baekhap (백합) in Korea and bǎihé (百合) in China. The IKEA plush toy shark Blåhaj (stylized BLÅHAJ, Swedish pronunciation: [ˈbloːhaj] , lit. ' blue shark ' ; colloquially anglicised as / ˈ b l ɑː h ɑː ʒ / , / ˈ b l ɑː h ɑː / or / ˈ b l oʊ h aɪ / )
1368-620: The Examiner turned tumultuous and was later called "Friday of the Purple Hand" and "Bloody Friday of the Purple Hand". Examiner employees "dumped a barrel of printers' ink on the crowd from the roof of the newspaper building", according to glbtq.com . Some reports state that it was a barrel of ink poured from the roof of the building. The protestors "used the ink to scrawl slogans on the building walls" and slap purple hand prints "throughout downtown [San Francisco]" resulting in "one of
1425-451: The LGBTQ community to safely and easily perform digital penetration during sex. The most distinct and modern form of the manicure entails long nail extensions on every finger apart from the index finger , middle finger , and sometimes thumb of the dominant hand , thus preventing injury or discomfort to the vulva or vagina during intercourse while otherwise maintaining the fashion of long acrylic nails in one's daily life. The style
1482-594: The Louisville Cardinals men's basketball team during the 1978–1979 season. After retiring from baseball, Burke, who was one of the first openly gay professional athletes, used the high five with other gay residents of the Castro district of San Francisco , and it became a symbol of gay pride . A lesbian manicure (also known as queer manicure, lez nails, or femmicure) is a style or trend of manicure intended to allow lesbians and other queer people in
1539-565: The Romantic era of Japanese literature to symbolize beauty and purity in women, and are a de facto symbol of the yuri genre ( yuri ( 百合 ) translates literally to " lily "), which describes the portrayal of intimate love, sex, or emotional connections between women. The term Yurizoku ( 百合族 , lit. "lily tribe") was coined in 1976 by Ito Bungaku , editor of the gay men's magazine Barazoku (see above), to refer to his female readers. While not all those women were lesbians, and it
1596-443: The astronomical symbols for the planets Venus and Mars respectively. Following Linnaeus , biologists use the planetary symbol for Venus to represent the female sex , and the planetary symbol for Mars to represent the male sex . Two interlocking female symbols (⚢) represent a lesbian or the lesbian community, and two interlocking male symbols (⚣) a gay male or the gay male community. These symbols first appeared in
1653-536: The "queerness of bisexuality", referencing the Lavender Menace and 1980s and 1990s associations of lavender with queerness . Michael Page stated that when designing the bisexual flag he took the colors and overlap of the flag from the biangles. Some bisexual individuals object to the use of a pink triangle in the biangles symbol of bisexuality (see above), as it was a symbol that Adolf Hitler 's regime used to tag and persecute homosexuals. In response,
1710-606: The 1970s. The combined male-female symbol (⚦) is used to represent androgyne or transgender people; when additionally combined with the female (♀) and male (♂) symbols (⚧) it indicates gender inclusivity, though it is also used as a transgender symbol. In 1970, graphic designer Tom Doerr selected the lower-case Greek letter lambda (λ) to be the symbol of the New York chapter of the Gay Activists Alliance . The alliance's literature states that Doerr chose
1767-514: The 1976 Boston Pride Parade and on a flag that was raised at Boston City Hall in 1987. Outside of Boston, Theatre Rhinoceros , located in San Francisco , and founded in 1977, based its name on this symbol. Theatre Rhinoceros, also called Theatre Rhino, or The Rhino, is a gay and lesbian theatre. It claims to be the world's longest-running professional queer theatre company. An online bookstore focused on LGBTQ authors and books called "The Lavender Rhino" launched in 2023. Unicorns have become
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1824-706: The American Lambda Literary Foundation derive their names from this symbol. In 19th century in England , green indicated homosexual affiliations, as popularized by gay author Oscar Wilde , who often wore a green carnation on his lapel. According to some interpretations, American poet Walt Whitman used the sweet flag plant to represent homoerotic male love because of its phallic connotations. The term bara ( 薔薇 ) , " rose " in Japanese, has historically been used in Japan as
1881-483: The Board Treasurer, became Interim Executive Director. Ford was announced as Executive Director (no longer Interim) in 2023. This made her the first openly transgender person paid to be Executive Director of the San Francisco Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Pride Celebration Committee. In 2022, the parade's concluding event at Civic Center was cut short by the organizers after a person was spraying mace near
1938-656: The San Francisco Human Rights Commission had declined to investigate the discrimination claims filed against SF Pride. Pride parade Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below. Request from 172.68.168.150 via cp1114 cp1114, Varnish XID 957844278 Upstream caches: cp1114 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Thu, 28 Nov 2024 10:50:12 GMT LGBT symbols#Freedom Rings Over
1995-675: The Sunday morning parade. It is a collection of booths, dance stages, and vendors around the Civic Center area near San Francisco City Hall . On the Sunday of the parade, an area of the festival called Leather Alley features fetish and BDSM oriented booths and demonstrations. The festival is traditionally held in the last full weekend in June. This commemorates the Stonewall riots . The independently organized San Francisco Trans March
2052-471: The colors of the rainbow flag . These rings are worn by themselves or as part of necklaces, bracelets, and keychains. They are a symbol of gay pride, and were originally sold as a fundraiser for the 1991 San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade and quickly became a national trend. In June 1992, several of MTV 's on-air hosts wore Freedom Rings in recognition of Pride Month , elevating their visibility. They are sometimes referred to as "Fruit Loops". Gaysper
2109-449: The course of its history, the LGBTQ community has adopted certain symbols for self-identification to demonstrate unity, pride , shared values, and allegiance to one another. These symbols communicate ideas, concepts, and identity both within their communities and to mainstream culture. The two symbols most recognized internationally are the pink triangle and the rainbow flag . The female and male gender symbols are derived from
2166-481: The curb with a clear view of the street. Others climb onto bus shelters, the walls of subway station stairs, or scaffolding on buildings to get a clear view. As the parade ends, the spectators are able to pass through the barriers and march down Market street behind the parade. The end of the parade route is near the Festival location at the Civic Center . A two-day (Saturday and Sunday) festival has grown up around
2223-549: The event. In 2019, activists blocked the Pride parade route for almost an hour, in protest of police and corporate presence at the event. In January 2020, Fred Lopez was named as the new Executive Director, having served in that position in an interim role since July 2019. The 2020 and 2021 pride events were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic . In 2022, Executive Director Fred Lopez stepped down, and Suzanne Ford, previously
2280-625: The festival. Several veteran contractors are employed to take on specific roles for the event. Also involved in the running of the festival and parade are hundreds of volunteers. Of particular note are: 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. The following afternoon,
2337-563: The first asexual entry into an American pride parade when they walked in the San Francisco Pride Parade. They have entered subsequent parades since. George Ridgely was hired to the position of Executive Director on January 7, 2014, and served in that position until July 11, 2019. In 2016, Black Lives Matter and the TGI Justice Project withdrew from the parade in protest of increased police presence at
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2394-538: The first commercially produced gay magazine in Asia . The use of the rose as a prominent symbol of love between males is supposedly derived from the Greek myth of King Laius having affairs with boys under rose trees. Since the 2000s, bara has been used by non-Japanese audience as an umbrella term to describe a wide variety of Japanese and non-Japanese gay media featuring love and sex between masculine men . The rose
2451-567: The form of bandanas , worn in back pockets, in colors that signaled sexual interests, fetishes, and if the wearer was a "top" or "bottom" . It was popular among the gay leather community of the United States and the cruising scene more broadly. There are many origin stories of the high five , but the two most documented candidates are Dusty Baker and Glenn Burke of the Los Angeles Dodgers professional baseball team on October 2, 1977, and Wiley Brown and Derek Smith of
2508-537: The ground." The accounts of police brutality include women being thrown to the ground and protesters' teeth being knocked out. Inspired by Black Hand extortion methods of Camorra gangsters and the Mafia , some gay and lesbian activists attempted to institute "purple hand" as a symbol against anti-gay attacks, but the symbol was only briefly used. In Turkey, the LGBTQ rights organization MorEl Eskişehir LGBTT Oluşumu (Purple Hand Eskişehir LGBT Formation) bears
2565-442: The magic creature started to appear on T-shirts and banners at Gay Pride around the world, with slogans such as 'Gender is Imaginary' or 'Totally Straight' emblazoned under sparkling rainbow unicorns." Gay Star News said in 2018 that unicorns are the "gay, LGBTI and queer icons of our time". Symbols of the LGBTQ community have been used to represent members' unity, pride, shared values, and allegiance to one another. One of
2622-409: The more well-known contingents are: During the 1990s it was common to see anti-gay protestors in the spectator area along the parade route, holding large signs condemning homosexuality, often with biblical passages. In the 2000s such protestors have become less common. Hundreds of thousands of spectators line the parade route along Market Street. Some arrive hours in advance to claim a prime spot on
2679-473: The most visible demonstrations of gay power" according to the Bay Area Reporter . According to Larry LittleJohn, then president of Society for Individual Rights , "At that point, the tactical squad arrived — not to get the employees who dumped the ink, but to arrest the demonstrators. Somebody could have been hurt if that ink had gotten into their eyes, but the police were knocking people to
2736-438: The name of this symbol. The white knot is a symbol of support for same-sex marriage in the United States. The white knot combines two symbols of marriage, the color white and " tying the knot ," to represent support for same-sex marriage . The white knot has been worn publicly by many celebrities as a means of demonstrating solidarity with that cause. The white knot was created by Frank Voci in November 2008, in response to
2793-469: The oldest of these symbols is the downward-pointing pink triangle that male homosexuals, male bisexuals, and transgender women in Nazi concentration camps were required to wear on their clothing. The badge is one of several badges that internees wore to identify what kind of prisoners they were. Many of the estimated 5,000–15,000 gay men imprisoned in concentration camps did not survive. The pink triangle
2850-590: The passage of Proposition 8 in California and bans on same-sex marriage and denial of other civil rights for LGBTQ persons across the nation. A pride flag is any flag that represents a segment or part of the LGBTQ community . Pride in this case refers to the notion of LGBTQ pride . The terms LGBTQ flag and queer flag are often used interchangeably. Pride flags can represent various sexual orientations , romantic orientations , gender identities , subcultures , and regional purposes, as well as
2907-479: The phonetic shortening from asexual to ace, are sometimes used to represent asexuality. The ace of hearts and ace of spades are used to symbolize romantic asexuality and aromantic asexuality respectively. Likewise, the ace of clubs is used to symbolize gray asexuality and grayromanticism , and the ace of diamonds is used to symbolize demiromanticism and demisexuality . Freedom Rings, designed by David Spada in 1991, are six aluminum rings, each in one of
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#17327910119312964-651: The stage, causing a panic, followed by multiple street brawls. In 2023, for the first time, the San Francisco Pride parade organizers began requesting donations to keep the parade financially afloat. Note : Several facts in this section are taken from "San Francisco LGBT Historical Timeline" by KQED (see External links). The themes of Pride festivals from 1970 to 2015 may be seen at San Francisco Pride website. On April 24, 2013, Pride announced that its electoral college had chosen U.S. Army Private First Class Chelsea (then known as Bradley) Manning , at
3021-657: The symbol specifically for its denotative meaning in the context of chemistry and physics : "a complete exchange of energy–that moment or span of time witness to absolute activity". The lambda became associated with gay liberation , and in December 1974, it was officially declared the international symbol for gay and lesbian rights by the International Gay Rights Congress in Edinburgh, Scotland . The gay rights organization Lambda Legal and
3078-448: The time imprisoned for leaking classified documents to WikiLeaks , as Community Grand Marshal in absentia for the 43rd annual Gay Pride Parade. Two days later, Pride's board president vetoed the election, declaring it "an error" due to a "systemic failure that now has become apparent and will be rectified." The board subsequently explained that the category in which Manning was elected is restricted to "a local hero (individual) not being
3135-534: Was lavender because that is a mix of pink and blue, making it a symbolic merger of the feminine and masculine. (Lavender had already been used to represent LGBTQ people in other contexts ). However, in May 1974, Metro Transit Advertising said its lawyers could not "determine eligibility of the public service rate" for the lavender rhinoceros ads, which tripled the cost of the ad campaign. Gay Media Action challenged this but were unsuccessful. The lavender rhinoceros symbol
3192-490: Was later reclaimed by gay men, as well as some lesbians, in various political movements as a symbol of personal pride and remembrance. AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power ( ACT-UP ) adopted the downward-pointing pink triangle to symbolize the "active fight back" against HIV / AIDS "rather than a passive resignation to fate." The pink triangle was used exclusively with male prisoners, including transfeminine individuals, as cisgender lesbians were not included under Paragraph 175 ,
3249-582: Was seen on signs, pins, and t-shirts at the Boston Pride Parade later in 1974, and a life-sized papier-mâché lavender rhinoceros was part of the parade. Money was raised for the ads, and they began running on the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority 's Green Line by December 3, 1974, and ran there until February 1975. The lavender rhinoceros continued as a symbol of the gay community, appearing at
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