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36TH S.F. GAY PRIDE PARADE: Huge celebration of pride
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | June 26, 2006 | Simone Sebastian and Demian Bulwa

Posted on 06/26/2006 6:32:02 AM PDT by 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."

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; US: California
KEYWORDS: homosexualagenda; thereligiousleft
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To: Zender500
dancing -- one man in his underwear

Only, one?!

41 posted on 06/26/2006 7:38:27 AM PDT by rabidralph
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To: Zender500

One of the ironies of life is that those who have the least to be proud of are proudest.


42 posted on 06/26/2006 7:49:48 AM PDT by R.W.Ratikal (8)
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To: sportutegrl

But I wouldn't trade places with a queer for any amount of special rights.


43 posted on 06/26/2006 7:51:51 AM PDT by R.W.Ratikal (8)
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To: DungeonMaster

I was ticked too. Instead of pandering, why not stand up for something. Does she think they're actually going to vote for her. Get a reality check.


44 posted on 06/26/2006 7:52:51 AM PDT by cdga5for4
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To: Zender500
If these queers are so PROUD, why do they hide under the alias "GAY?" Seems to me that when someone is proud of "being something" they should not hesitate to use the appropriate word - HOMOSEXUAL rather than gay or lesbian. I don;t usually refer to such people as queers but thought it appropriate in this discussion to point to the differences in people's thinking about homosexuality.
45 posted on 06/26/2006 7:59:15 AM PDT by sinbad17
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To: Zender500

Just what are they proud of again?


46 posted on 06/26/2006 8:00:22 AM PDT by Kozak (Anti Shahada: " There is no God named Allah, and Muhammed is his False Prophet")
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To: cdga5for4
I was ticked too. Instead of pandering, why not stand up for something. Does she think they're actually going to vote for her. Get a reality check.

But "they" seem to be infiltrating the Republican party as easily and efficiently as they are infiltrating the more liberal churches. It's like a game of Risk and the pink soldiers are building up more and more.

47 posted on 06/26/2006 8:02:40 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (More and more churches are nada scriptura.)
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To: The Lumster
Speak for yourself bucko!

It actually makes me lose interest in Harleys. And that's saying something.

48 posted on 06/26/2006 8:06:02 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (More and more churches are nada scriptura.)
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To: cdga5for4
They televised the Chicago "parade." It was covered heavily on all of the evening news broadcasts. The CBS affiliate had its own float. The NBC female anchor was dancing on another. The Republican candidate for governor was also on a float.

And Ozzie Guillen, manager of the reigning World Series Champion Chicago White Sox, gets fined and sent to "sensitivity training" by MLB for using the word "Fag."

49 posted on 06/26/2006 8:06:45 AM PDT by N. Theknow (uire)
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To: sinbad17
If these queers are so PROUD, why do they hide under the alias "GAY?"

And most of them are so proud they wear masks or paint their faces for the parade.

And some people wonder why Pride is one of the Seven Deadly Sins.

50 posted on 06/26/2006 8:08:35 AM PDT by N. Theknow (uire)
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To: Zender500

AND....why wasn't Chillary here???????

Oh yes....she hasn't yet 'come out of the closet' yet....I see....


51 posted on 06/26/2006 8:09:04 AM PDT by HarleyLady27 (My ? to libs: "Do they ever shut up on your planet?" "Grow your own DOPE: Plant a LIB!")
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To: Zender500

Cometh before the fall...


52 posted on 06/26/2006 8:10:33 AM PDT by Xenophon450 ("Study the past, if you would divine the future." - Confucius)
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To: DungeonMaster

That is the point of this freak show.

The want you to be numbed to the deviance.

Homosexuals are no different than any other sex fetish: animal sex people, wife swappers, lether fetish people, or any other sexual act.

Notice they MSM does not include the freak images and explicit sexual content. Homosexuality is ONLY about sex it represents NOTHING else.


53 posted on 06/26/2006 8:10:59 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: nonliberal
Yet another reason to ask California to secede from the Union.

Better include Oregon and Washington in that, too. Portland had a big gay pride parade last Sunday (Father's Day, no less), and Seattle had a big one yesterday :-(

54 posted on 06/26/2006 8:12:23 AM PDT by Inspectorette
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To: HarleyLady27
why wasn't Chillary here??

Because she was here.

55 posted on 06/26/2006 8:20:13 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: One4Indictment
HOMO DEPOT!

Lol. That is too funny. Waiting for Registered to make a jpeg for this.

56 posted on 06/26/2006 8:38:03 AM PDT by nonliberal (Graduate: Curtis E. LeMay School of International Relations)
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To: kimmie7

Yep. Those zany Sodomites are so normal.


57 posted on 06/26/2006 8:52:34 AM PDT by AD from SpringBay (We have the government we allow and deserve.)
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To: RightOnline

Me too. And Willie Brown needs a wash your mouth out with soap time, too!!


58 posted on 06/26/2006 9:32:38 AM PDT by victim soul
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To: Gritty

Thanks. Satan is indeed alive and working to destroy God's creatures.


59 posted on 06/26/2006 9:34:39 AM PDT by victim soul
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To: Izzy Dunne

the Sinagogue of Satan...


60 posted on 06/26/2006 12:41:24 PM PDT by rahbert
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