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The event theme for the 39th Annual San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration & Parade was selected by the General Membership. Drawing from the Preamble to the Constitution, the membership selected "In Order to Form a More Perfect Union…" from a slate of 30 potential themes, each submitted by community members and members of Pride. Member Jokie Wilson, who submitted the winning theme, explained after the meeting why he submitted the Preamble: “We LGBTQQIs are no longer an outsider people asking for tolerance. We are Americans. And we are not merely denizens of this earth, but citizens of the universe in a perpetual effort to form a more perfect union with all of its members. The theme was originally inspired by my reading of the 2008 California Supreme Court decision on marriage and the preamble to the US Constitution."
The San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration Committee takes very seriously its commitment to maintaining an event that is open to people of all economic backgrounds. Your generosity at the entrances to the Celebration in the form of donations helps keep San Francisco Pride free to all members of the community and provides crucial support to this important community event.
Our donations program also helps to support over seventy Bay Area non-profit organizations through our Community Partners Program. Donations from the celebration have helped San Francisco Pride to give back more than $1.4 million in grants since 1997. With your help, we can do even better this year and invest in our community's future! Join us for two days of music, food and fun... all for FREE! No tickets are needed and no one is ever turned away for lack of funds.
About the San Francisco Pride Celebration
San Francisco Pride has been said to be "one of the last remaining pride events that can truly be called a rite of passage." 2009 will mark the 39th anniversary of the San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration and Parade. The event will be held over the weekend of June 27 and 28, 2009 in the Civic Center of downtown San Francisco. With over 200 parade contingents, 300 exhibitors, and 19 stages and venues, the San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration and Parade is the largest LGBT gathering in the nation. The San Francisco Pride Celebration is packed with a wide variety of exhibitors, artists, music of all kinds, performers, dance stages and venues, and fun. There really is something here for everyone.
The Celebration at Civic Center is host to our
Main Stage
where in 2008, attendees saw Cyndi Lauper, Margaret Cho,
Kat DeLuna, Inaya Day, Crystal Waters, speakers from the
marriage equality movement, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom,
and others.
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