It takes place on Valencia Street in San Francisco’s Mission District between 18th and 21st streets.
11 – in order to encourage increased visibility for the LGBTQ+ community. The new fair, in its inaugural year, is timed to take place near National Coming Out Day – Monday, Oct. For instance, San Francisco Pride will be hosting the LGBTQ+ Freedom Day Festival on Sunday, Oct. Now that things are opening up again, we’re seeing fall celebrations honoring occasions that could not be celebrated this summer. This June’s Pride was deferred and, instead, celebrants were offered an outdoor movie night at the stadium in the name of public safety. Large events like San Francisco Pride – which usually takes place in June in order to commemorate the anniversary of the Stonewall Riots J– were canceled for the second year in a row in 2021 or were altered so drastically as to not be the same event. It has been a long pandemic – remember back in March 2020 when we thought that we would only be on lockdown for two or three months? A year and seven months later, outdoor in-person events were still barely making a comeback. Two playful young African Americans hug while sporting pride colors and waving a rainbow flag at San Francisco Pride in 2016.
