San Francisco Pride, in the wake of love winning, has a big number of corporate sponsors this year, including Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Safeway and other companies with inflated senses of their contribution to the LGBT community. The entire point of incorporating black and brown stripes in the new flag was to uplift marginalized voices.Īnd yet, the SF Pride organizers chose not to use the new flag. All this to support Black and brown people in the gay community that have felt distrust for the largely racist gay community. The city of Philadelphia released a new pride flag with 8 stripes this pride season - six of the stripes for the traditional rainbow, plus one brown stripe and one black one. Today, SF Pride is just a common market with a whole lot of police officers milling around in the Castro. The first pride parades on the West Coast began as “Gay-in” protests in the 1970s.
