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People who plan to attend can text a number to receive emergency alerts. The San Francisco Department of Emergency Management is making sure everyone has a safe Pride Weekend.
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This year's parade followed the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, which resulted from a police raid in Greenwich Village in New York on June 28, 1969, and is considered the beginning of the gay liberation movement in the United States.Starting at 9 a.m., Friday and continuing until 6 a.m., Monday: He had no problem talking about it Sunday morning as he and his husband, Hung Fan, 72, sat along North Palm Canyon Drive wearing rainbow-colored Mickey Mouse ears. "People kind of knew, but you didn't want to talk about it," said Feldman, 62, of Laguna Beach. It was the 1970s and being openly gay was still easier said than done even though he lived in a region generally more accepting of the LGBTQ community than other parts of the country. It wasn't always that simple and he often "danced around" the topic whenever she'd ask the same question when he lived in the Bay Area 45 years ago. Michael Feldman's mother called him Sunday morning to ask what he was doing and he said he told her he and his friends were at the Greater Palm Springs Pride Parade.