They also have no #moneez which is the reason for the #sadz.
Welcome to our world, gays…and alphabet soup sex types. Where if you want to play, you have to pay, not have it paid for.
This is what it seems the San Francisco Pride Parade has been pretty used to for the past, however long – riding corporate sponsors to bigger and ruder events every year.
The group that runs the whole Pride ‘Celebration’ – SFPride – has been doing it for some time now – 55 years.
Welcome to San Francisco Pride! Our organization is dedicated to creating a vibrant and inclusive community for LGBTQ+ individuals and allies. As the largest gathering of the LGBTQ+ community and allies in the nation, our annual celebration brings together over 200 parade contingents and exhibitors, and features many community-run stages and venues.
Each year, our Pride Celebration begins on a Saturday in Civic Center Plaza, located in downtown San Francisco, during the last full weekend of June. This event attracts people from all over the world and provides an opportunity for the LGBTQ+ community and allies to celebrate diversity, equality, and love. The Celebration includes various entertainment options, including music, performances, food, and merchandise vendors, and a family garden where families can enjoy activities together.
The highlight of our event is the San Francisco Pride Parade, which takes place on Sunday morning and kicks off from Beale Street along Market, ending at Market and 9th St. in the heart of downtown San Francisco. Our parade features a diverse group of marchers, including floats, dancers, and community organizations, who come together to show their support for the LGBTQ+ community and promote equality and justice for all. We invite you to join us for our annual celebration and take part in our mission of creating a world where everyone is free to be their authentic selves.
Sounds harmless enough, right?
Diverse group, marchers, equality and justice for all, and bunches of authentic selves!
WEEEEEEE!!!
The ‘authentic selves’ associated with this, now famous for its utterly debauched character, are what have become notorious.
SAN FRANCISCO- First look at SF Pride where multiple men are fully exposed in front of young children and teens
Public nudity was outlawed in San Francisco back in 2012, but is still apparently legal at any parade, fair or festival held under a city- or government-issued permit pic.twitter.com/EdZooYrVwS
— Savanah Hernandez (@sav_says_) June 30, 2024
The SF Pride events have featured heavily in grandstanding by such loathsome individuals as State Senator Scott Wiener, infamous for authoring a bill that would prevent teachers from ‘outing’ students to their parents. ‘These are our kids’ Wiener said.
If you know anything at all about this deviant, that’s a terrifying statement.
CA State Senator Scott Wiener has a float at San Francisco’s Pride Parade and appears to be joined by State Attorney General Rob Bonta @nbcbayarea #SFPRIDE52 pic.twitter.com/ZbFnE3FlVW
— Alyssa Goard (@AlyssaMGoard) June 26, 2022
San Fran schools participate in this.
Schools brought students to the San Francisco pride parade where n*k*d men walked around doing s*xual acts. Here a n*k*d man stands right in front waving to children. https://t.co/3Bhcdb98cY
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) July 1, 2024
Mind-blowing.
SF Pride went about planning its events, which culminate with the parade as the grand finale, as they do every year, with every expectation of continued support, and ran into a problem.
Sponsors were reneging on commitments to fork over cash as they had in years past and withdrawing completely. And these weren’t just any sponsors, ones that might be affected by the downturn in the economy or the real estate or tech crunch in the San Fran area.
These were major corporations who’d been hardcore sponsors of the festivities for years.
Suddenly, they’re big-time ghosting the Pride Parade.
Several longtime corporate sponsors of San Francisco’s Pride celebrations are pulling their funding for the festivities, leaving Pride organizers searching for another way to raise $300,000.
In the past four weeks, multiple companies told San Francisco Pride, the nonprofit behind San Francisco’s annual Pride Parade and Civic Center celebration, that they would not support the 2025 Pride celebrations. In an interview with SFGATE, San Francisco Pride’s executive director, Suzanne Ford, said she was “really disappointed” by the developments.
In their communications with San Francisco Pride, the sponsors all cited a lack of funds. None of them mentioned the political climate. But Ford noted that it was “very abnormal” for several multiyear sponsors to suddenly drop their support for the event. A few sponsors pull their support every year, she said, but they typically do so after a series of conversations with the nonprofit.
A few told organizers that times were hard. One will still be a sponsor but not at their previous level, but the others are just O-U-T.
…Ford told KTVU-TV that those sponsors included Comcast; Anheuser-Busch, the company behind Budweiser and Beck’s beer; wine company La Crema; and Diageo, the beverage company that produces Guinness, Smirnoff and other alcoholic drink brands. Aside from Comcast, all of those companies specialize in alcoholic beverages, a market that has become more volatile as Americans’ drinking preferences shift.
Janel Lubanski, a spokesperson for La Crema’s parent company, Jackson Family Wines, told SFGATE that the wine company still hopes to partner with San Francisco Pride but will not be able to do so in the same capacity as in previous years.
As of this moment, they’re short some $300K, tightening their belt – if they were planning on wearing one – and wondering what hit them.
San Francisco Pride, one of the largest LGBTQ+ celebrations in the world, has lost significant funding as major corporate sponsors – some who supported the festivities for years – have pulled out of the event.
Several companies, including Comcast, Diageo, Benefit Cosmetics and… pic.twitter.com/bCQYsMUrQt
— Melissa Hallman (@dotconnectinga) March 19, 2025
As the lost sponsors only amount to about 15% of their multi-million dollar budget, somehow, they’ll have to muddle along.
A good part of it is the death of DEI hello.
There is no longer enormous pressure on companies to comply with the wishes and demands of fringe groups and make public sacrifices in their corporate image to prove their social purity.
That money is gone.
…Suzanne, put down the remote, and back away from the MSNBC, The View, or whatever your drug of “news” choice is. There is zero pressure from the federal government to compel private companies to abandon the DEI ideology — any executive action taken by Trump to dismantle such an agenda and restore meritocracy has been confined to federal agencies and departments, for that’s all the control and authority he has. He does not have the political power to dictate how a private business delegates its cash. To be fair, it’s not like anyone really expects a leftist to understand the separation between the public and private sectors, especially when they vote (knowingly or unknowingly) to eliminate such a boundary.
There’s a craving for a return to some sense of normalcy and decency in our streets and public events, particularly if there’s public money being spent.
And the judgment on firms associated with the progressive virtue-signaling of the past and their harsh, hateful rhetoric towards the ‘normies’ of the world isn’t soon to be forgotten or forgiven.
Corporations are doing that math and are no longer willing to take the risk of indulging the fringe at the expense of their customer base.
Have a half-baked sale or something.
