{"id":468121,"date":"2026-09-18T17:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T17:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/468121\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T17:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T17:28:10","slug":"best-of-the-bay-2026-editors-pick-san-francisco-trans-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/468121\/","title":{"rendered":"Best of the Bay 2026 Editors\u2019 Pick: San Francisco Trans March"},"content":{"rendered":"

Polls are open for our 2026 Best of the Bay!\u00a0Vote here now<\/a>, and enjoy our\u00a0Editors\u2019 Picks<\/a>\u00a0of our favorite Bay Area things, which we\u2019ll be posting throughout the month and beyond.<\/p>\n

Since its founding in 2004, the vibrant, outspoken, and inspirational San Francisco Trans March<\/a> has kicked off Pride Month by making it abundantly clear that it\u2019s an event for the people, not politicians. <\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t until 2016 that organizers made the latter half an explicit, hardline rule\u2014after which several SF politicians either claimed ignorance of or straight-up ignored having been banned from the event, leading to them being chased out of Dolores Park to live with their shame. <\/p>\n

Corporation-coddling congressional candidate Scott Wiener (known for weaponizing his own queerness whilst erasing SF\u2019s queer history<\/a>) tried to invade the space this summer. Attendees ran him off with his tail between his legs<\/a>, and his presence was condemned by Trans March organizers<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Later, the SFPD attacked Trans Marchers<\/a> as if they were getting prizes for doing so. It was yet another chapter in the never-ending story of SFPD\u2019s attack on the city\u2019s queer community.<\/p>\n

But in the midst of this gloom, emerges a silver lining. The conflict proved that the Trans March places as much importance as standing by its principles as bringing the community together.<\/p>\n

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Despite all its pink-washing and cheap rainbow flags, Pride began as a riot. In 2022, when Mayor London Breed was informed that SFPD wasn\u2019t invited to the SF Pride parade after the murder of George Floyd, she and the corporate sponsors threatened to pull out. Pride organizers immediately caved<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why the Trans March is so important: it serves as a reminder that even in San Francisco, there\u2019s still a long way to go. It\u2019s not just an event where gorgeous people gather under the sun to dance together, support local vendors, show off art, and live as their true selves before hoofing it down the streets of San Francisco (though it\u2019s that, too). <\/p>\n

No, the Trans March exists to prove 1) the fight isn\u2019t over, and 2) it\u2019s a fight trans folk can win.<\/p>\n

Support the Trans March here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Polls are open for our 2026 Best of the Bay!\u00a0Vote here now, and enjoy our\u00a0Editors\u2019 Picks\u00a0of our favorite…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-468121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468121","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=468121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}