Posts Tagged ‘pride’
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009
As everybody knows, Market Street is straight until it hits the Castro. See for yourself as you follow it from the Ferry Building (once the second-highest building in town) all the way to the Giant Gay Pride Flag of the Castro District, the biggest in the world they say.
This is almost the view you get from the Twin Peaks Overlook up on Christmas Tree Road – the second highest point in San Francisco:
And click below for a closer look. Can you see the historic street cars and the bike riders?
Sure you can. Just scroll around.
Tags: big, biggest, castro, christmas, district, financial, flag, Gay, market, overlook, photo, pride, rainbow, road, San Francisco, street, tree, twin peaks, view
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Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
Here’s what Twin Peaks looks like after the intentional act of arson over the weekend:
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This is what it looks like a little higher up from the Twin Peaks Overlook:
It seems like a pink Hindenburg crashed:
And the remaining balloons look like the start of a Christo art exhibit
Anyway, it looks like a few road flares could have done the damage, which amounts to about 150 square feet or so of charring.
Oh well.
Tags: $28, 2009, 27, accelerant, accelerants, arson, christmas tree, fire, flares, Gay, giant, june, morning, night, parade, pink, plastic, pride, road, San Francisco, triangle, twin peaks, weekend
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Saturday, June 27th, 2009
San Francisco proper has 30 numbered streets, but only one has the gumption, the temerity, the will to make it across Market Street AND to keep on trucking up and over the nearest ridge, hilly geography be damned.
That makes 17th the King of All Numbered Streets in San Francisco.
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Ahora mas que nunca, 17th es el rey de todas las calles numeradas.
Tags: 17th, 17th street, all, castro, district, flag, freedom, Gay, hilly, king, market, mission, numbered, pride, rainbow, San Francisco, seventeenth, street, weekend
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Sunday, March 15th, 2009
These two icons of San Francisco’s Castro District can appear to be close together if you stand in the right place. The Castro Theatre is in great shape and the giant Gay Pride Flag at the corner of Market and Castro looks a lot spiffier these days compared to the past. Check out the history of all those colors here. An older version from the filming of the Sean Penn movie Milk…
| hot pink: sexuality |
| red: life |
| orange: healing |
| yellow: sunlight |
| green: nature |
| turquoise: magic/art |
| indigo: serenity/harmony |
| violet: spirit |
…and the current. From Corona Heights, click to expand:
And here’s the theatre without the flag, as seen during the filming of Academy Award-winning Milk
Tags: academy, award, best actor, california, castro, district, dvd, film, filming, flag, Gay, GLBT, harvey, LGBT, lgbtq, male, market, Milk, movie, pride, rainbow, San Francisco, Sean Penn, street, theater, theatre
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Tuesday, February 10th, 2009
The Pagan Alliance would like to remind you about the 8th Annual Pagan Festival and Pride Parade coming up on May 9, 2009. That’s right, it’ll be here in just three short months.
Of course, Paganism is:
the blanket term given to describe religions and spiritual practices of pre-Christian Europe, and by extension a term for polytheistic traditions or folk religion worldwide seen from a Western or Christian viewpoint. The term has various different meanings, though, from a Western perspective, it has modern connotations of a faith that has polytheistic, spiritualist, animistic or shamanic practices.
Are you sold yet? Via Sqacco. See these Pagans? This could be you, come Spring.
All the deets, after the jump
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Tags: 2009, 9, 9th, allaince, Berkeley, califonia, Civic Center Park, Festival, full circle, Jr, martin luther king, may, pagan, parade, pride, street
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
Kara’s Cupcakes, the San Francisco version of Sprinkles, apparently, went all out to get into Pride 2008 the other day.
Check out the locations in the Marina and Ghirardelli Square to see the brainchild of Kara Lind and maybe you yourself will catch cupcake fever, just like all the rest. Or get a gift card or T-shirt perhaps?
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Will you enjoy the experience as much as these two, who just happened to be caught in this (somewhat crudely Photoshopped) moment of sweet rapture by a roving photojournalist? You can only hope.
See you there.
Tags: 2008, CupCake, Gay, Ghirardelli, kara, kara's cupcakes, lind, marina, pride, scott, sprinkles, Square
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
There seemed to be quite a few Gayglers (gay Googlers) in the crowd during Pride 2008 last weekend. They weren’t too hard to spot, what with their official T-shirts, as in years past.
What will be the next “-oogler” coinage to take off? Noogler, Loogler, or Xoogler?
Online, you might notice a similar rainbow theme, depending on what you search for.
Tags: civic center, colors, Gay, gaygler, google, Lesbian, loogler, noogler, parade, pride, rainbow, San Francisco, t shirts, xoogler
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
The streets of San Francisco were hopping yesterday what with the final day of Pride 2008.
See a slideshow of photos here and read all about it here.
Pride parade on Market Street with the Ferry Building in the background. Click to expand:
This fellow hung out at an intersection with his home-made bloodied crucifix for a good long while:
Perhaps he wouldn’t be too receptive to this mathematical identity: “Christian + Gay = O.K.”
And just when you think the whole world has gone gay, along comes a person who displayed heterosexual pride. His simple message: “I Love My Girlfriend.”
How sweet. See you next year.
Tags: california, celebration, City Hall, civic center, domestic, dyke, equality, Gay, Lesbian, marriage, parade, partners, pride, San Francisco, sfpride
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
Each year, Patrick Carney organizes the installation of a huge pink triangle on the slopes of Twin Peaks in San Francisco.
This commemoration of the gay victims of the Holocaust and reminder of the on-going inhumanity to repressed minorities around the world is always well-attended. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi couldn’t attend this year but her district director, Dan Bernal, offered her statement to the crowd.
A Rosa Winkel for Homosexuells, back in the day. Click to expand:
Senator Carole Migden commented upon the swirling fog and occasional winds that conveyed an “Edgar Allan Poe feeling.”
San Francisco Supervisor Bevan Dufty avec l’enfant, once again.
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom popped his cork prematurely to the delight of fiancee Jennifer Siebel. But not too much ceremonial bubbly was lost, as recorded here by Official Pride Photographer Bill Wilson.
See you next year.
Tags: 2008, ammiano, bevan, california, Carole, dufty, Gavin, Holocaust, jennifer, migden, nancy, Newsom, pelosi, pink, pride, San Francisco, Senator, siebel, tom, triangle, twin peaks
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
The San Francisco Dyke March had a huge turnout yesterday, as per usual. This was the scene as the crowd headed to Dolores Park in the Mission district, where every girl cried for one reason or another, per Tony. Click to enlarge:
JasonJT via flickr
Much-discussed this year was the case of Venice Brown, Terrain Dandridge, Patreese Johnson, Renata Hill and Dwayne Buckle.
A full account of the 2008 Dyke Festival and Parade is here. See you next year.
Tags: 2008, district, dolores, dyke, Festival, Gay, guerrero, Lesbian, march, mission, parade, park, pride, San Francisco, valencia
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