No list of iconic LGBTQ events would be complete without San Francisco's PRIDE festival. The Fresh Meat Festival makes a point to be inclusive, offering a wheelchair-accessible venue and American Sign Language interpreted performances. Each show ia followed up by drinks, dancing and DJs. The Transgender and Queer Performance Festival features acts that run the gamut from opera to boy bands and ballroom dancing to hula hooping. What Frameline is to LGBTQ cinema, the Fresh Meat Festival is to live art. Lights! Camera! Action? Frameline43, San Francisco's International LGBTQ Film Festival, features screenings of more than 150 movies, shorts and documentaries at different venues all over the city. Here are six LGBTQ events in San Francisco you won't want to miss this year.įrameline43 - The King of Queer Film Festivals (June 20-30) At that point, this famed West Coast city was a pioneering town that welcomed transient and adventurous new residents since then, it has embraced its public persona to become one of the most exclusive - and inclusive - locations for celebrating LGBTQ culture. Its rich counterculture history stretches from North Beach to the Castro and dates as far back as the mid-1800s. For nearly half a century, San Francisco has celebrated lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer ( LGBTQ) pride with parades, celebrations and festivals.
