It was announced last week that the hard working (and often fractious) crew that runs San Francisco's annual LGBTQ Pride celebration in June has decided to skip the monster parade this year in deference to the pandemic. Good for them. Most of us will probably be vaccinated by then, but it wouldn't seem responsible to attract throngs of travelers possibly passing around viral gifts.
They are planning substitute activities:
... the annual celebrations for LGBTQ Pride Weekend will be expanded into a month of programming with three socially distant, outdoor events anchoring the schedule, organizers announced Wednesday, March 24. In addition to being envisioned with pandemic safety measures in mind, the new format also gives the organization the opportunity to focus on renewed discussions around equity in the LGBTQ community.
“Pride every year is going to take into account the zeitgeist of the current moment, not only in LGBTQ communities but in the larger community,” said Fred Lopez, executive director of San Francisco Pride. “We learned a lot in 2020 about putting on a virtual event. We’ve been doing some internal investigation into unconscious bias in our community, listening to BIPOC people and making sure that learning is at the forefront in 2021.”
Undoubtedly steps in the right direction ...
Meanwhile, venturing into downtown last week for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic, I was delighted to come across this:
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Was this lesson in lesbian history left over from the 2020 celebration that wasn't? ... or do we just teach queer history as an everyday matter?
Thanks to Google, I now know this was a February art display (I saw it in March). Much more of gay comic artist Justin Hall's work on display here.
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