San Francisco Pride: Pride proud

San Francisco's Pride reached a compromise with the police to develop and promote an agreement, convey professionalism and orderliness to energize sponsors and donations, communicate that this Pride would be fun and diffuse any crisis, positioning SF Pride as a beacon for a weary LGBTQIA+ community.

Situation Analysis

It's a frightening time for the LGBTQIA+ community.

Conservatives on the Supreme Court plan to reverse same-sex marriage.

Conservatives on the street, such as Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, are physically attacking queer people to prove themselves.

Mother nature seems in on it, too: Monkeypox is raging with men who have sex with men.

The historic antidote for this kind of persecution has been Pride.

Pride rallies the LGBTQIA+ community to create awareness of these problems and harness the energy necessary to fight them.

The first Pride started in New York in 1970 to commemorate the 1969 Stonewall...

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