The San Francisco Trans March is an annual gathering and protest march in San Francisco, California, that takes place on the Friday night of Pride weekend, the last weekend of June. It is a trans and gender non-conforming and inclusive event in the same spirit of the original gay pride parades and dyke marches. It is one of the few large annual transgender events in the world and has likely been the largest transgender event since its inception in June 2004.[1] The purpose of the event is to increase visibility, activism and acceptance of all gender-variant people.[2]
The event became the fourth main LGBT Pride event in San Francisco; all of which are inclusive and ask for donations instead of requiring paid admission; San Francisco Pride (SF Pride), with a festival on Saturday, parade and festival Sunday; San Francisco Dyke March on Saturday afternoon and march in the evening; and Pink Saturday, which is an evening street party in the Castro District Saturday evening run by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.[2] SF Pride, and the organizers of the other much larger events, all participated in supporting the event since its inception with funds, material and technical support. In recent years, the event has begun at Mission Dolores Park (the same staging and performance area as the Dyke March), and has ended in the Tenderloin, near the location of the Compton's Cafeteria Riot.[3][4]
- ^ Trans March on Friday Rob Akers 6/22/2006. Bay Area Reporter. Archived 2011-09-18 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b Changes afoot for SF Pride events: Trans March Matthew S. Bajko, 25 June 2009. Bay Area Reporter. Archived February 24, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Chavez, Lola M. (June 25, 2016). "SF Trans Celebration Boos Pols and Says No to More Police". Mission Local. Retrieved June 25, 2016.
- ^ Mamidanna, Sruti (June 29, 2019). "PHOTOS: S.F. Pride Weekend Kicks Off With Trans March". KQED. Retrieved June 30, 2019.