San Francisco Pride, gay marriage, and historic happenings in Furry Mecca.
by Patch O'Furr
Billet Sheltie – pic by Eric Campbell.
Gay marriage just became legal across the USA. Even if you have no plan to get one, it’s a big deal. People of a few generations ago thought we’d have flying cars before this happened. The writer of “Furry Force” says:
In San Francisco, the news hit right at “gay christmas”. The city was getting ready for Pride, “the largest gathering of LGBT people and allies in the nation.”
It was already going to be one whopper of a party. But with the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling that gays and lesbians have a constitutional right to marry fresh off the presses, Sunday’s Pride Parade in San Francisco became a rainbow-colored, joyous celebration for the ages.
The whole country was involved. The Chief of Police called it “the largest Pride celebration ever.” Being mainstream was a big topic. On a subcultural level, the excitement spread among “the world’s greatest concentration of furries per square mile.” Furries were in the parade in 2005, returning in 2014 and 2015.
Pic by Vincent