{"id":194723,"date":"2026-02-26T12:19:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T12:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/194723\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T12:19:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T12:19:21","slug":"pride-in-panels-sf-queer-arts-festival-san-francisco-bay-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/194723\/","title":{"rendered":"Pride in Panels &#8211; SF Queer Arts Festival &#8211; San Francisco Bay Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Photos by Rink<\/p>\n<p>More than 2000 participants and artists came to the San Francisco Public Library for this year\u2019s SF Queer Comics Festival\u2019s Celebration: Pride in Panels held on Sunday, February 15, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The biennial festival includes exhibits by artists, panel hands-on workshops, discussions, and spotlight interviews with special guests, including Rupert Kinnard (featured in the African American Center) and Lee Lai (in the Chinese Center). Workshops were held in the James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center, and panel discussions were located in the Koret Auditorium and Latino\/Hispanic Community Meeting Room.<\/p>\n<p>The event is the premiere showcase of LGBTQIA+ comics creators in the San Francisco Bay Area. The nonprofit Pride in Panels heads up the festival. The inaugural event took place in 2024.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-182.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-53605\"   \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-179.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"53602\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-179.png\" data-link=\"https:\/\/sfbaytimes.com\/?attachment_id=53602\" class=\"wp-image-53602\"   \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-183.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"53606\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-183.png\" data-link=\"https:\/\/sfbaytimes.com\/?attachment_id=53606\" class=\"wp-image-53606\"   \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-181.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-53604\"   \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-178.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-53601\"   \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-185.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"53608\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-185.png\" data-link=\"https:\/\/sfbaytimes.com\/?attachment_id=53608\" class=\"wp-image-53608\"   \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-184.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"53607\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-184.png\" data-link=\"https:\/\/sfbaytimes.com\/?attachment_id=53607\" class=\"wp-image-53607\"   \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-180.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-53603\"   \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prideinpanels.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.prideinpanels.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Published on February 26, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photos by Rink More than 2000 participants and artists came to the San Francisco Public Library for this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-194723","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-san-francisco","9":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","10":"tag-san-francisco-news","11":"tag-sf","12":"tag-sf-headlines","13":"tag-sf-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}