On June 24, the 48th Gay Pride Parade in San Francisco was launched. Millions of people, including the mayor of San Francisco, the California Senate, major Bay Area companies, organizations, and residents, waving the rainbow flag.

Millions of people in San Francisco flocked to San Francisco Government Square to participate in the celebration. Photo by Wang Yihan, a reporter from Overseas Chinese News,

People waved the rainbow flag to celebrate the 48th Gay Pride Parade in San Francisco. Photo by Wang Yihan, a reporter from Overseas Chinese News

As a homosexual friendly city, the homosexual pride parade is one of the most important activities in San Francisco every year. Residents from all over the country flocked to the event site from 10:30 in the morning and continued the carnival celebration until the evening of that day.

parade has been participated by many political celebrities selected from San Francisco Bay Area . Among them, former San Francisco mayor and current California lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom, San Francisco mayor Mark Farrell, City Councilman Rafael Mandelman, California Representatives Phil Ting and David Chiu, California Senators Scott Wiener and Kamala Harris, etc., they all appeared on the floats of the parade, waved to greet the people along the street from time to time, and expressed their support and affirmation of the LGBTQ group.

California Lieutenant Governor Newsom's parade float was warmly welcomed by the public. Photo by Wang Yihan, reporter of Overseas Chinese News

California Representative Qiu Xinfu took his 2-year-old daughter to participate in the parade. Photo by Wang Yihan, reporter of the Overseas Chinese News

California Representative Ding Youli and his wife and daughter waved to the public on his parade float. Photo by Wang Yihan, a reporter from Overseas Chinese News

Weishangao said on the same day: "Although the LGBTQ community has made great progress in issues such as marriage equality, health care and parental rights, we are now facing someone trying to change our hard-won rights. We cannot relax our guard now. Let us use the most spectacular parade to show our existence, make our voices, and convey a clear and clear message to those who want to change the wave of progress, that is, we will not stop moving forward. Although we still have a lot of work to do before the "mission is completed", I hope that today let us take some time to celebrate the achievements we have made together." The organizers of the

parade said that the number of people joining the parade this year reached 50,000, and at least one million people were present to participate and watch. The event starts from 11 a.m. until 6 p.m. that day, and a large concert event will be held in front of the San Francisco Municipal Government Square.

According to reports, there are more than 240 floating teams participating in this year's parade. In addition to supporting homosexual equality and LGTBQ groups, they also include many social organizations that support immigration and oppose Trump immigration policy. The theme of this year's parade is "The Power of the Times". Many people of different ages came to participate and participated in the event. Four women from the Bay Area Church Organization said that in their early years, the homosexual group was misunderstood and bound. They were very happy to see that the current homosexual group received more understanding and support. They shouted to the passing team at the parade: "Grandmas, support you!" The atmosphere of the parade floats of the search engine Google Company was warm. Photo by Wang Yihan, a reporter from Overseas Chinese News,

People took slogans to support immigration groups to participate in the march. Photo by Wang Yihan, a reporter from Overseas Chinese News,

In addition to the LGBTQ group, many groups opposing Trump's policies participated in the march. Photo by Wang Yihan, a reporter from Overseas Chinese News,

San Francisco police officers joined the parade wearing rainbow ribbons. Photo by Wang Yihan, a reporter from Overseas Chinese News, a couple who took their 6-year-old son and 3-year-old daughter to participate in the parade said that any group deserves a home that belongs to them. The child’s “parents” do not have to have two genders. What’s important is whether the family can give the child enough love. They said that they have deliberately talked about their children's understanding of "meanless gender distinction" since childhood. Mom Meghan said she once emphasized to her friends that she should not only give her daughter pink gifts, nor only give her son blue gifts.She believes that many people’s disunderstanding of homosexuality is because of some unreasonable gender paranoids. Therefore, she hopes to weaken the child’s concept of a certain gender and let the child develop healthily according to his or her personality.

This year's parade starts from the junction of Market Street and Bill Street, and the end is set at the junction of Market Street and Eighth Street. As the San Francisco city square was held at the same time, authorities closed several streets in San Francisco, and Muni will reset the downtown bus route planning.

In order to ensure the smooth holding of the parade, several major stations such as the Muni system Embarcadero Station, San Francisco Municipal Government Station, Powell Station, etc. have sent a large number of guards to guide the busy flow of people and ensure the smooth progress of security inspection. Meanwhile, muni offers additional subway services on the K Ingleside/T Third, L Taraval and M Ocean View lines, ensuring that a large number of San Francisco residents can enter and exit the city center smoothly during the parade.

parade crowds sang and danced in the procession. Photo by Wang Yihan, a reporter from the Overseas Chinese Daily,

Four ladies from the San Francisco church expressed their support to the parade on the spot. Photo by Wang Yihan, a reporter from Overseas Chinese News

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