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San Francisco's Chinatown hosts Pride celebration – AsAmNews
San Francisco’s Chinatown hosted its first-ever in-person Pride event on Saturday.
According to ABC 7 San Francisco, hundreds gathered in the city’s Chinatown neighborhood to celebrate Pride.
The event took place on a block of Grant street. There were vendors, food, music, traditional lion dancers and a parade.
“I think every neighborhood is starting to have a little Pride celebration, and I think there’s enough Pride to go around,” Estee Longah told KTVU. “Chinatown is so iconic for not just the city of San Francisco, but also the Asian Pacific Islander community, and I think that it’s important to highlight the queer contributions throughout history.”
According to KQED, event organizers wanted to celebrate Chinatown’s queer community and queer history.
“We want to honor that legacy and also think about what it means to be visible and also hidden,” Erika Pallasigue, art and public programs manager at Edge on the Square, told KQED. “When we’re out here in a procession, saying, ‘We are here, we’re visible,’ there’s also acknowledgement that not everybody is out, and it doesn’t mean that you have to be out to also be proud, queer and Asian.”
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