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50 Years of SF Pride, Pride 2020 At Home

Published

5 years ago

June 11, 2020

By Kiki

June 5, 2020, marked the kick-off for San Francisco Pride 2020. It was virtually streamed on Mayor London Breed’s Facebook Page.

SF Pride 2020 will be on Saturday and Sunday, June 27-28, 2020, and — like the kick-off — for the first time in SF Pride’s 50-year history, it will be virtual and online.

The co-hosts of the kick-off and “Pride At Home” are SF Pride, Manny’s, the San Francisco Office of Transgender Initiatives, SF Bay Area LGBTQ+ COVID-19 Relief Coalition.

The kick-off had lots of music: Breanna Elyce Sinclaire sang “Amazing Grace;” the SF Gay Men’s Chorus sang “If You’re Out There;” and the SF Lesbian Gay Freedom Band performed “I Left My Heart in San Francisco.”

SF Pride Board President Carolyn Wysinger, Office of Transgender Initiative Director Clair Farley, and Breed all spoke at the kickoff.

Breed said that “one thing that is giving her hope is that people who are not African American are fighting for change.”

There was a panel discussion on the treatment of Black and Brown folk with Tuquan Harrison, LGBTQI adviser at the Human Rights Commission; Aria Sa’id, executive director, Transgender District; Imani Rupert-Gordon, executive director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights; Nicole Santamaria, executive director of El/La Para TransLatinas; and Akira Jackson, executive director TAJA (Trans Activists for Justice and Accountability” Coalition.

Michelle Meow of the “Michelle Meow Show” spoke about and interviewed Jack Beck, executive director of TurnOut and Anjali Rim, director of Parivar Bay Area about bayarealgbtqcovidrelief.com.

For more information about “Pride At Home,” go to sfpride.org.

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Remembering George Floyd

BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — Minnesota State Attorney General Keith Ellison acknowledges that the Floyd case five years ago involved a situation in which due process was denied, and five years later, the president is currently dismissing “due process. “The Minnesota Atty General also says, “Trump is trying to attack constitutional rule, attacking congressional authority and judicial decision-making.” George Floyd was an African American man killed by police who knocked on his neck and on his back, preventing him from breathing.

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2 days ago

June 2, 2025

Oakland Post

Mural showing the portrait of George Floyd in Mauerpark in Berlin. To the left of the portrait the lettering "I can't Breathe" was added, on the right side the three hashtags #GeorgeFloyd, #Icantbreathe and #Sayhisname. The mural was completed by Eme Street Art (facebook name) / Eme Free Thinker (signature) on 29 May 2020. (Wikimedia Commons)

By April Ryan
BlackPressUSA Newswire

“The president’s been very clear he has no intentions of pardoning Derek Chauvin, and it’s not a request that we’re looking at,” confirms a senior staffer at the Trump White House. That White House response results from public hope, including from a close Trump ally, Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene. The timing of Greene’s hopes coincides with the Justice Department’s recent decision to end oversight of local police accused of abuse. It also falls on the fifth anniversary of the police-involved death of George Floyd on May 25th. The death sparked national and worldwide outrage and became a transitional moment politically and culturally, although the outcry for laws on police accountability failed.

The death forced then-Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden to focus on deadly police force and accountability. His efforts while president to pass the George Floyd Justice in policing act failed. The death of George Floyd also put a spotlight on the Black community, forcing then-candidate Biden to choose a Black woman running mate. Kamala Harris ultimately became vice president of the United States alongside Joe Biden. Minnesota State Attorney General Keith Ellison prosecuted the cases against the officers involved in the death of Floyd. He remembers,” Trump was in office when George Floyd was killed, and I would blame Trump for creating a negative environment for police-community relations. Remember, it was him who said when the looting starts, the shooting starts, it was him who got rid of all the consent decrees that were in place by the Obama administration.”

In 2025, Police-involved civilian deaths are up by “about 100 to about 11 hundred,” according to Ellison. Ellison acknowledges that the Floyd case five years ago involved a situation in which due process was denied, and five years later, the president is currently dismissing “due process. “The Minnesota Atty General also says, “Trump is trying to attack constitutional rule, attacking congressional authority and judicial decision-making.” George Floyd was an African-American man killed by police who knocked on his neck and on his back, preventing him from breathing. During those minutes on the ground, Floyd cried out for his late mother several times. Police subdued Floyd for an alleged counterfeit $20 bill.