Another signature San Francisco event: the annual Pride Parade. Being new SF residents and all we had to go check it out. I was really excited because I had heard good things but it wasn’t quite as cool as I thought it would be. It’s super long and moves pretty slowly (started at 10:30pm, finished at about 1:30pm). But the historic significance of the event (this is it’s 38th year, 38 years ago you could lose your job for being gay), and the significance of this year’s event (gay marriage legalized) made it fun. There was a large group of recently married couples marching with the legal team that helped win the legalization which was incredibly moving. A lot of them had signs stating how long they had been together (some 30+ years) and that they had finally been married in the past two weeks (CA started marrying couples June 17th). It’s so sad we’ve been shunning these people for so long. What makes their love any less valid?

We didn’t get any really good pictures, here are two:

Vote no on the ban in November

Recently married couples

Now here are some good pictures from the folks over at the San Francisco Chronicle: