Pride parade

For Erica Ambrin, a musician from Los Angeles who currently lives in Sacramento, it was certainly a memorable experience, as she performed at her first Pride celebration.

The reality of the matter is that once Pride Month ends, this “inclusion” does as well — until next year during Pride.

The city of San Francisco celebrated this weekend with its annual San Francisco Pride Parade, which was attended by more than 1 million people with over 250 contingents.

Too hungover and in need of caffeine to think twice about what we were doing, we automatically surrendered to the stereotypes of our demographic. Our crew — mostly white, mostly straight, and in this moment, basic as fuck, was that group emerging from the BART escalator out into the San Francisco Civic Center daylight, tinseled with rainbow flags and glitter, late for the parade, zero percent nude, with Starbucks in hand.