With San Diego Pride behind us, another huge festival approaches on the horizon in the historic venue that is San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. The seventh annual Outside Lands Festival, billed as the world’s only gourmet music festival will take place Aug. 8-10, and will welcome fans from across the country as they flock to…
There were amazing vibes throughout Pride weekend in San Francisco this year. The amount of support and attendance for all of the events that occurred starting with the 11th annual Trans March June 27, and ending with The San Francisco Pride Festival, was inspirational. The Trans March began with a youth and elder brunch at…
http://youtu.be/qBkAAortU_g MIAMI – Burger King Worldwide, Inc. is broadcasting a widespread message in support of self-expression with a digital film launching today on Youtube. The film was created at a Burger King restaurant at the heart of the San Francisco Pride Parade route where a limited edition Proud Whopper Sandwich was added to the menu. Guests who ordered the…
SAN FRANCISCO — Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. has announced that he has appointed San Francisco Chief Deputy City Attorney Therese M. Stewart to serve as a justice on the California Court of Appeal, on the First District Court’s Division Two. The appointment, made during San Francisco’s LGBT Pride weekend, marks an appropriately historic milestone for California’s judiciary as well as its LGBT community: Stewart will…
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – Civil and human rights leader, Harvey Milk, was honored Thursday with his very own wax figure, which was unveiled by his nephew, Stuart, at Madame Tussauds San Francisco, to celebrate the opening of the city’s newest wax attraction. Stuart Milk, Co-Founder and Board President of the Harvey Milk Foundation, revealed the…
SAN FRANCISCO — Virgin America for the seventh year in a row is proud to partner with SF Pride as the “Official Domestic Airline of San Francisco Pride.” 2014 marks the 44th Anniversary of the San Francisco Pride Parade and Celebration and Virgin America’s teammates will be bringing the airline’s signature Virgin Red to this year’s “Color Our…
DALLAS — Southwest Airlines (NYSE: LUV) has announced that the company proudly shows its dedication to the LGBT community through its recognition of Gay Pride Month in June and its support of LGBT-focused community partnerships throughout the year. “Southwest Airlines has a unique culture based on respect, recognizing the value of all our employees, the importance…
Support for the gay community is higher than ever before—a recent Gallup poll shows that 55 percent of Americans support same-sex marriage, compared to just 27 percent in 1996. With Pennsylvania and Oregon recently joining the growing list of states to overturn bans on gay marriage, the campaign for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT)…
One Toyota, an Oakland, California-based dealership quietly began running a new television ad in the San Francisco Bay area that features, for the first time in the United States, a same-sex couple exclusively for a car commercial. The spot shows a middle-class woman sitting in her driveway speaking to someone else about her new purchase,…
