San Francisco City Hall is expected to pay for this year’s Pink Saturday party but will end the event in the Castro at 8 p.m. and is likely to ban music stages.
Last month the Bay Area Reporter broke the news that the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence had decided to end their oversight of the street party they had managed for nearly two decades.
The charitable drag nun group made the decision due to escalating violence in recent years, including an attack on one of its members and his husband last year and the shooting death of attendee Stephen Powell, 19, in 2010.
Adam Taylor, an aide to gay District 8 Supervisor Scott Wiener, informed Castro merchants at their monthly meeting this morning (Thursday, March 5), that city leaders had determined the party must continue, despite the Sisters’ withdrawal, in order to deal with the tens of thousands of people expected to stream into the Castro the evening of Saturday, June 27 on the eve of the city’s Pride parade and celebration Sunday, June 28.
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