Description
The San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration Committee is the organizing body of San Francisco’s Pride parade and festival, which
has run each year in various forms since 1970. The collection largely consists of ephemera, photographs, and video from parades
between 1995 and 2019, although each of the years 1979-1994 is represented.
Background
The San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration Committee is the organizing body of San Francisco’s Pride parade and festival, which
has run each year in various forms since 1970. Successively known as the Gay-In, Christopher Street West, Gay Freedom Day,
and the International Lesbian & Gay Freedom Day Parade, it assumed its current name in 1995 and now attracts more than one
million spectators each year.
Extent
20 linear feet (15 cartons, one extra-large oversized box)
Restrictions
Copyright to material has not been transferred to the GLBT Historical Society. All requests for reproductions and/or permission
to publish or quote from material must be submitted in writing to the GLBT Historical Society Archivist. Permission for reproductions
and/or permission to publish or quote from material is given on behalf of the GLBT Historical Society as the owner of the
physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by
the researcher.
Availability
Collection is open for research.