{"id":474048,"date":"2026-09-24T09:18:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T09:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/474048\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T09:18:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T09:18:24","slug":"2026-castro-street-fair-to-launch-new-san-francisco-black-pride-programming-san-francisco-bay-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/474048\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Castro Street Fair to Launch New San Francisco Black Pride Programming &#8211; San Francisco Bay Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image-182.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-56763\" width=\"454\" height=\"341\"   \/><\/p>\n<p>By Riley Manlaplaz\u2014<\/p>\n<p>This year, the Castro Street Fair is welcoming\u00a0San Francisco Black Pride\u00a0to the Castro Stage at Castro and Market Streets for a special block of entertainment programming celebrating Black LGBTQ+ artists, performers and community.<\/p>\n<p>San Francisco Black Pride grew from a grassroots idea sparked by local artist and organizer\u00a0LBXX (Gyasi Curry), whose question about why San Francisco did not have a Black Pride celebration of its own helped inspire the launch of the city\u2019s first San Francisco Black Pride Week in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>For the Castro Street Fair, San Francisco Black Pride is curating programming on the\u00a0Castro Stage, with artists currently slated to appear including\u00a0Ms. Love O, The Junior, and LBXX. Programming is still evolving, and the lineup is subject to change.<\/p>\n<p>Entertainment will extend throughout the Fair, including the\u00a0Collingwood Stage at 18th Street, the\u00a0Queer AF Stage programmed by Devlin Shand, and a mix of new and returning artists across the day. Together, the stages will showcase the range of music, performance, and queer creativity that has long been central to the Castro Street Fair experience.<\/p>\n<p>The expanded programming also reflects this year\u2019s theme,\u00a0\u201cWhere We Belong,\u201d\u00a0celebrating the many communities and creative voices that continue to shape the Castro and San Francisco\u2019s LGBTQ+ culture.<\/p>\n<p>Riley Manlaplaz is a marketing and communications consultant who is tthe Secretary of the Castro Street Fair.<\/p>\n<p>Arts &amp; Entertainment<br \/>Published on September 24, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Riley Manlaplaz\u2014 This year, the Castro Street Fair is welcoming\u00a0San Francisco Black Pride\u00a0to the Castro Stage at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-474048","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\/474048","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=474048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}