Posted on 10/03/2009 7:55:38 PM PDT by Steelfish
Love Is In The Air Along S.F.'s Market Street
Heather Knight October 3, 2009
San Francisco -- Thousands of people dressed in neon wigs, sparkly butterfly wings, tutus, bikinis - or occasionally nothing at all - and danced, hula hooped and hugged their way down San Francisco's Market Street on Saturday for the city's sixth annual celebration of love.
Based on Berlin's Love Parade, San Francisco's LoveFest was renamed this year to LovEvolution to avoid legal action from the promoters of the Love Festival in Los Angeles who had trademarked their name. But potential lawsuits - or the dire economy or the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq - didn't appear to be on anybody's mind.
"It's people coming together, having fun, dancing their (butts) off and just forgetting the world's troubles for a day," said Sterling Alexander, who danced in the middle of the street wearing silver devil horns affixed to his bald head and red, feathery wings. "It's celebrating life."
Also celebrating life were several people dressed as hot dogs, a man with a giant paper mushroom on his head, a man in a furry pink outfit walking on stilts, a girl giving out free hugs and bare chested men offering free kisses.
The event shut down Market Street between Second Street and Civic Center, and organizers said they expected up to 10,000 revelers.
Shoppers and tourists on the busy thoroughfare looked downright perplexed, several stopped to ask what the 20-plus floats blaring electronic music as scantily clad people gyrated on them were all about. And the naked man covered in gold body paint and carrying a red bow and arrow proved particularly worthy of double-takes.
Megan Lehrer, 18, and her friends had traveled from Discovery Bay for the event and looked like extras from the movie...
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
This thread is useful without pics
LOL - and I won’t post any.
The pics? Go ahead.
1968 redux. Were they wearing flowers in their hair, I wonder.
These people would have beds in schools to make sure kids are having real sex ed.
Mmm mmm mmm
OMG! I don’t think even Sodom saw anything like this
Makes the Folsom Street Fair look lame.
Did MillerBrewing join in as a sponsor again
???And, all these asshats are needed to get Pelousi out of office next year???
Someone in the comments said it was Pepsi
I feel sorry about San Francisco. Before the crazies took it over it was a beautiful and classy city.
“...umm, wait a minute, I’m going to need the telephoto lens...”
“What are they, dear?”
“Dunno. Stanford fans?”
What has been seen cannot be unseen.
And I don`t want to know what else was as well.
Optical 10x Zoom engaged?
Required?
Why is she taking a picture of that guy’s arm?
I think its the steel bracelet she’s after ...
At the end of the scan, when it was obvious to all what was in view, my sister-in-law yelled "OMG, I thought it was his arm." The entire audience roared (breaking up a very boring movie). She and my wife went out to the lobby. We picked up their sweaters and left.
In all sincerity, how much longer do white people have on this planet?
so who's going? :D LOL!!!!
Okay, that’s a good story LOL
Love Is In The Air Along S.F.’s Market Street...And fudge is being packed and cookies are being dusted...LOL
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