Tag Archives: Pink Saturday

From the Bay Area Reporter: San Francisco Supervisor Scott Wiener confirmed Thursday that there will be no Pink Party in the city’s gay Castro district the Saturday before the annual LGBT Pride parade. Following a March 17 meeting with key stakeholders, Wiener told the Bay Area Reporter that there will be no street closures this year. In previous years, the …

San Francisco’s often tumultuous Pink Saturday street party, held on the day before the Pride parade, was canceled last month after the withdrawal of its longtime sponsor, the Sisters Of Perpetual Indulgence, who cited the event’s “escalation of violence.” But today the San Francisco LGBT Community Center stepped in to run this year’s party with a promise of increased security. …

San Francisco’s often tumultuous Pink Saturday street party, held on the day before the Pride parade, has been canceled for this year. Via press release from the Sisters Of Perpetual Indulgence: Pink Saturday has had a history of great joy for the community over the years. During the time it has been produced by the Sisters it has raised hundreds …

Two separate but possibly related assaults marred San Francisco’s Pink Saturday celebration in the Castro. From the Facebook page of Stop The Violence: During Pink Saturday a Sister in white face and habbit who was working the event on behalf of the community, and her husband, were physically and verbally assaulted by a group of up to seven people at …