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March With Pride for Israel
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Sunday June 29th, 11:30AM We are contingent #135 Assemble on Beale Street between Mission and Folsom in Downtown San Francisco. Look for the Israeli flags. Being a democracy, Israel protects the rights of its minority citizens including its Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered (LGBT) population. In fact, Israel's record on LGBT not only rights ranks head and shoulders above its neighbors, but is one of the most progressive in the world. The LGBT Pride Parade allows us the opportunity to reach a large audience who are largely unaware of Israel's record of tolerance. This year's theme is "United By Pride, Bound For Equality." Just as the LGBT community wants equality, we strive for equality for Israel amongst the family of nations. We want Israel to be treated as an equal in the United Nations, treated fairly by the international news media, and to be recognized by its neighbors with normalized relations. Tolerance extends both ways and just as Israel protects and respects its LGBT population, Israel also respects and protects its religious groups who freely and legally protest Israel's LGBT parades and whose neighborhoods are avoided by Israel's LGBT Pride parades. We understand that not all of our supporters will feel comfortable participating in the SF Pride Parade. Event Details: We are contingent number 135 and will be on Beale St. between Mission and Folsom. We will be easily identifiable by the presence of Israeli flags! Be prepared to hold a sign or flag for the length of the route or help us in distributing postcards produced especially for us by BlueStarPR with a grant from StandWithUs. Wear comfortable shoes, bring sunscreen, and bring some water. Our previous entries into the parade were met with a great amount of love form the crowds and we expect this year to be no different. This is San Francisco's largest parade and is a way to reach a massive number of people with a San Francisco specific positive message about Israel! See footage from our entry at last year's parade here If you can, please train as a contingent monitor. The more monitors we have, the larger our contingent can be! Here is the schedule for monitor training. |
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