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Censorship in Pride March video
The official recording of the 2026 San Francisco Pride March censored the Freedom Socialist Party and Radical Women contingent in the Pride March.
The Freedom Socialist Party (FSP) and Radical Women (RW), two longtime activist organizations with a chapter in the San Francisco’s Tenderloin, participated in the SF Pride March. When we watched the video recording of the Pride March we were shocked that when it came time to view the FSP and RW contingent, a blank screen suddenly appeared, and we are not to be seen! Here’s the link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4eXUbp0o54. We are disappeared at the 16:48 mark.
It’s outrageous that we were consciously removed from the video of this year’s Pride March, which was hypocritically themed “Resistance in Action”! Could it be that our chants in front of the tv cameras offended Pride officials and San Francisco Mayor Lurie? We purposely chanted, “Mayor Lurie you can’t hide, Cutting services IS NOT PRIDE”! San Francisco’s top Democrat is threatening to eliminate critical services at Public Health and Human Services, as well as laying off hundreds of City workers.
We marched in the Resistance Contingent with other left groups and could be seen in the earlier shots. Visible signs and banners promoting socialism were also shown, so we surmise that it was our criticism of Mayor Lurie that resulted in our censure.
In FSP and RW we have seen corporate media and the official Pride leadership turn their backs on poor and working class LGBTQI+ folks for too long. In 2026, we’re seeing increased attacks on trans folks and queer youth. With increased violence, job and health discrimination, loss of basic human rights, Pride needs to get back to the fighting days of Stonewall.
We have written to the San Francisco Pride Board and ABC TV which was the “exclusive broadcaster” of the March asking for an explanation and a public apology. We are also demanding that they restore the segment of us that they removed.
It’s outrageous that we were consciously removed from the video of this year’s Pride March, which was hypocritically themed “Resistance in Action”! Could it be that our chants in front of the tv cameras offended Pride officials and San Francisco Mayor Lurie? We purposely chanted, “Mayor Lurie you can’t hide, Cutting services IS NOT PRIDE”! San Francisco’s top Democrat is threatening to eliminate critical services at Public Health and Human Services, as well as laying off hundreds of City workers.
We marched in the Resistance Contingent with other left groups and could be seen in the earlier shots. Visible signs and banners promoting socialism were also shown, so we surmise that it was our criticism of Mayor Lurie that resulted in our censure.
In FSP and RW we have seen corporate media and the official Pride leadership turn their backs on poor and working class LGBTQI+ folks for too long. In 2026, we’re seeing increased attacks on trans folks and queer youth. With increased violence, job and health discrimination, loss of basic human rights, Pride needs to get back to the fighting days of Stonewall.
We have written to the San Francisco Pride Board and ABC TV which was the “exclusive broadcaster” of the March asking for an explanation and a public apology. We are also demanding that they restore the segment of us that they removed.
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Shame on SF Pride and ABC7 for turning their backs on queer voices fighting for LGBTQIA+ survival.
This is petty and cowardly! SF Pride was claiming how they are “allowing” community voices to spread their messages PRECISELY AS THE FREEDOM SOCIALIST PARTY/RADICAL WOMEN CONTINGENT WAS WALKING BY AND CHANTING ITS MESSAGE!
I was proud to be in that contingent, carrying on the legacy of Stonewall and all queer fighters who cannot afford to let Pride Month devolve into an apolitical corporate party.
Out lives are on the line — look at yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling against transgender athletes, along with the violence and systemic exclusion that queer and trans folks are increasingly facing.
Shame on both queer misleadership and corporate media. Poor and working people have to fight and we will! We always do.
This is petty and cowardly! SF Pride was claiming how they are “allowing” community voices to spread their messages PRECISELY AS THE FREEDOM SOCIALIST PARTY/RADICAL WOMEN CONTINGENT WAS WALKING BY AND CHANTING ITS MESSAGE!
I was proud to be in that contingent, carrying on the legacy of Stonewall and all queer fighters who cannot afford to let Pride Month devolve into an apolitical corporate party.
Out lives are on the line — look at yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling against transgender athletes, along with the violence and systemic exclusion that queer and trans folks are increasingly facing.
Shame on both queer misleadership and corporate media. Poor and working people have to fight and we will! We always do.
Thank you for raising this. It's really important to catch censorship when it happens, and to respond to it en masse swiftly, directly, and strongly.
SHAME on the Pride board and ABC7 for deliberately censoring the Freedom Socialist Party's fully justified criticism of Mayor Lurie and his deadly budget cuts to social services! It couldn't be more obvious that they intentionally skipped over the commentators saying the party's name out loud, then blacked out and cut the audio from the closeup shot of them with the signs and chants described in this post.
Don't let them get away with this without the backlash they deserve! We must hold them accountable!!
SHAME on the Pride board and ABC7 for deliberately censoring the Freedom Socialist Party's fully justified criticism of Mayor Lurie and his deadly budget cuts to social services! It couldn't be more obvious that they intentionally skipped over the commentators saying the party's name out loud, then blacked out and cut the audio from the closeup shot of them with the signs and chants described in this post.
Don't let them get away with this without the backlash they deserve! We must hold them accountable!!
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