36TH S.F. GAY PRIDE PARADE: Huge celebration of pride

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | June 26, 2006 | Simone Sebastian and Demian Bulwa

[Zender500]

Bull-riding cowboys, pirates dressed in pink and pit bulls in rainbow-colored tutus filled Market Street among the 200 groups that left no societal convention unscathed Sunday in San Francisco's 36th annual Pride Parade and Celebration.

Hundreds of thousands of spectators jammed downtown sidewalks and reached over police gates to score multicolored beads and candy that parade participants threw into the cheering crowd.

"I'll show you my breasts!" 22-year-old Riley Fitzgerald called out jokingly in an effort to get a beaded necklace to match the pink one wrapped around his wrist.

Fitzgerald, an emergency medical service volunteer with a perfect view of the parade from a Muni platform on Market Street, cheered loudly as Mayor Gavin Newsom's Mardi Gras-themed group passed.

"I am soaking up this parade. I am so stoked," he said with candy overflowing from his fanny pack, which also carried Band-Aids, gauze and sunscreen. "I feel like I'm able to participate and contribute to the continuity of this."

People poured out of BART and Muni stations and climbed onto streetlight poles and newspaper stands for better views. Others peered from hotel and apartment windows, waving rainbow flags or dancing -- one man in his underwear -- to the marching bands' music.

Bare breasts and pierced chests spotted the parade, which spanned more than a mile from Beale to Eighth streets.

As always, the Dykes on Bikes women's motorcycle group led the procession.

"The Dykes on Bikes are where it's at," former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown said as he hurried into position before the parade started. "That's what you want to see."

"The color is just incredible," Brown said, scanning the sea of performers in front of him. "The Lord has blessed us."

[bassmaner]

"We like to stick our d!cks up other guy's a$$es! And we're so proud of that, we're gonna shout it from the rooftops whether you like it or not!"

[Right Wing Assault]

"That's what you want to see."

Don't need that. There are plenty in my neighborhood. Get a life Willie.

[kimmie7]

naked, of course....

( eyes rolling uncontrollably )

[RightOnline]

I suddenly feel the need for a shower.........

[rahbert]

Isn't Gavin Newsome the Mayor now? I though Willie
was done with politics.

[TexasCajun]

"You're not in Kansas anymore, Dorothy!"

[The Great RJ]

I'm throwing up a little in my mouth.

[ishabibble]

Years ago, when this abomination was first taking hold in American cities, Pat Robertson had a series of video clips showing the incredible and disgusting behaviour of the homosexuals that is never shown on the MSM news. It was the real face of the homosexual deviancy walking down the streets of America. Flagrant sex acts were being performed on floats as children watched. On the news, all that was shown were all the colours. Like everything else about these sickos, their "pride" is a lie, too.

Anyway, nobody seemed to listen to Robertson then. And when he called for eliminating Hugo Chavez, even conservatives booed him. Now look at Central and South America. Pat Robertson has been called a crazy old man, but at least he's on our side. Crazy old men like Fidel Castro and Andy Rooney, Jimmy Cater and Sheets Byrd are not dismissed. They are praised and listened to by the idiot people, the people who fork over their tax dollars to fund this obscenity.

[martin_fierro]

"The color is just incredible," Brown said, scanning the sea of performers in front of him. "The Lord has blessed us."

[OB1kNOb]

Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

[Redleg Duke]

Who says there isn't a use for napalm anymore?

[theBuckwheat]

So much pride in what cannot be shown to children.

So much pride in behavior that has a very high rate of disease and death.

So much pride that anyone who objects "fears" it and is labeled "homophobic", which must be so bad that no public figure wants to be called.

[sportutegrl]

Homosexuals are the new protected (from discrimination) class. Apparently they have rights that us regular joes don't have, can't fire, can't offend, preferential treatment, etc., etc., etc.

[dcnd9]

A freak show!

[madprof98]

Dare to mention that "the wages of sin is death" and you're a mean-spirited theocrat.

[nonliberal]

Yet another reason to ask California to secede from the Union.

[nonliberal]

And when he called for eliminating Hugo Chavez, even conservatives booed him.

I didn't. He was dead right.

[DungeonMaster]

The Republican candidate for governor was also on a float.

The more of this I hear, the more I'm giving up on politics. Just sick.

[Gritty]

"The color is just incredible," Brown said, scanning the sea of performers in front of him. "The Lord Satan has blessed us."

There. Fixed it.

[One4Indictment]

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