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LovEvolution (formerly San Francisco LovEvolution and San Francisco LoveFest) was a technoparade and festival that occurred annually in the Bay Area in late September and early October. [2] From its inception in 2004 to 2009, the parade included 25 floats and started at San Francisco's 2nd and Market Streets.
During the summer of 2017, San Francisco celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love by holding numerous events and art exhibitions. [57] In Liverpool, the city has staged a 50 Summers of Love festival based on the 50th anniversary of the June 1, 1967, release of the album Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, by the Beatles. [58]
The Human Be-In was an event held in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park Polo Fields on January 14, 1967. [1] [2] [3] It was a prelude to San Francisco's Summer of Love, which made the Haight-Ashbury district a symbol of American counterculture and introduced the word "psychedelic" to suburbia.
The Love Parade (German: Loveparade) was an electronic dance music festival and technoparade that originated in 1989 in West Berlin, Germany. [1] It was held annually in Berlin from 1989 to 2003 and in 2006, then from 2007 to 2010 in the Ruhr region.
The Renegade Craft Fair in San Francisco; Russell City Blues Festival; San Francisco Blues Festival; San Francisco Chinese New Year Festival and Parade; San Francisco Jazz Festival; San Francisco LovEvolution; San Francisco Juneteenth Festival [2] San Francisco Marathon; San Francisco Pop Festival; San Francisco Pride; San Jose Holiday Parade ...
A "love letter to San Francisco," [2] the festival is named for the city's western neighborhoods, which were known as The Outside Lands in the 1800s. The 80-acre festival grounds feature art installations and exhibits by local artists and San Francisco-centric areas devoted to cannabis, activism and sustainability.
The first proto-leather bar in San Francisco was the Sailor Boy Tavern, which opened in 1938 near the Embarcadero YMCA and catered to U.S. Navy Sailors looking for same-sex sexual encounters. [8] Folsom Street has been the center of San Francisco's men's leather community since the mid-1960s.
2016 parade. The San Francisco Pride parade is an LGBT pride parade that is held on a Sunday morning as part of a two-day Festival.The route is usually west along San Francisco's Market Street, from Steuart Street to 8th Street [2] and it runs from 10:30 am until almost 4:00 pm. Participants line up off the parade route in advance of the start of the parade.