About People's March & Rally

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People’s March & Rally - Sunday, June 22nd / 11 am - 4 pm Polk & Washington Streets to Civic Center

Activists and community leaders Alex U. Inn and Juanita MORE! have announced details for their sixth annual Pride event, People’s March & Rally – Unite to Fight! While in past years the event was held on Pride Sunday, this year it will take place on Sunday, June 22, 2025. The event will begin with a rally at the corner of Polk and Washington Streets in San Francisco, featuring speakers and entertainers, then march down Polk Street – the same route as the first Gay Liberation Protest. The march will end at Civic Center for a celebration of culture and community.

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Activists and community leaders Alex U. Inn and Juanita MORE! in support of Black Lives Matter and in protest of 500+ laws against our Trans, Queer and Drag communities, we will be calling out human and racial injustice and demanding the much needed changes that will keep our communities safe. Hands off our lives is our call to protest!

Our rally will begin at the corner of Polk and Washington Streets, San Francisco, CA., on the same route of the first Gay Liberation Protest which occurred Saturday, June 27, 1970. Our protest march will end at Fern Alley for a celebration of our culture and community with DJs, performers, and artists’ booths.

As a collective we stand in unwavering commitment with our BIPOC communities — trans, cisgender, nonbinary, lesbian, gay, straight, queer, questioning, two-spirit, and all.  We come together in full solidarity with our family members, friends, lovers, and neighbors. We join to denounce and condemn violence against these communities and to raise awareness of the need to abolish and defund police departments policies as they stand today. This reallocation of public money will allow for greater funding to our social services, mental healthcare providers, and social justice organizations. 

An all-Black, Brown and Indigenous, committee of queer and trans community leaders, artists, and performers will lead the march. Join us as we march in unity to demand our fundamental human rights and for these targeted laws to be demolished!