Pride

The 36th annual Sonoma County Pride is back this weekend with in-person festivities for the first time in two years. To help kick off Pride, there was live music on Friday in Santa Rosa's Courthouse Square, ahead of Saturday’s annual parade.

COVID rates are on the rise. SF's health department says now is a prudent time to resume wearing masks in indoor settings, choose outdoor gatherings over indoor gatherings whenever possible, and use rapid tests as needed to determine who is infected and should isolate.

Honey Mahogany, a transgender activist and one-time aide to former San Francisco Supervisor Matt Haney, launched her bid to become District 6 Supervisor on Thursday. 

The political divisions and disagreements over San Francisco Police Department officers marching in uniform at this year's Pride parade seems to have made progress Thursday in the form of a resolution. 

As San Francisco kicked off Pride Month, the pandemic and politics are threatening to make this year's Pride more complicated and conflicted than past celebrations.

San Francisco Pride will return this year in person after COVID disrupted celebrations, and forced organizers to cancel the annual event for the past two years.

No rain, just rainbow flags filled the overcast skies in San Francisco for the start of what would have been the city's main Pride Weekend Saturday.

Oakland Black Pride is a relatively new organization in the East Bay; it only became an established non-profit in November 2020, during a peak of the pandemic.

It's the second year in a row without San Francisco's annual Pride parade. But festivities are still underway, during what would have been the beginning of the city's Pride weekend.

Ask just about any parent and they'll tell you their children are a gift. But, for LGBTQ families its a gift that requires more work,  dedication, and in many cases money.