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Parade Contingent
Information you need for Sunday, June 30, 2019
Folks are still registering and volunteering for our United in Spirit contingent. Join us in sharing a powerful message of unity as we celebrate LGBT people in San Francisco Pride.
ASSEMBLE: 11:30 AM, SUNDAY JUNE 30, 2019
INCLUSIVE COMMUNION: 12:15 PM
LATE ARRIVALS BY 12:45 PM
STEP-OFF: 1:00 PM - 1:45 PM
BLOCK M – MAIN ST BETWEEN MARKET ST & MISSION ST
LINE-UP #136. LOOK FOR THE CABLE CAR & UNITED IN SPIRIT BANNER
Due to crowds, allow plenty of extra travel time.
PUBLIC TRANSIT IS RECOMMENDED.
NO PARKING AVAILABLE AND VIOLATORS WILL BE TOWED.
WE NEED VOLUNTEERS!
Please watch 11 min online safety video in advance and complete training survey.
San Francisco Pride has a mandatory online training video for all parade participants so we can get oriented and move together safely and smoothly as one joyous unit up Market Street. In order to march, we need several volunteers to also complete the training survey, selecting United in Spirit as the Contingent name and Code UN3711 to register that you have trained. Please email Michael Leslie once you have completed the training:
IMPORTANT! Read detailed contingent schedule, safety rules, legal info, map, and broadcast info, on our Parade Day Info page!
Ask your congregation to bless your group and all of us as we bless the crowds at the parade and the celebration. I look forward to seeing all who are able to participate on Sunday the 30th and wish you a happy and blessed Pride!
Michael Leslie
Contingent Coordinator
michael@leslie.com
510.527.2663 (text or call if you are lost the day of the parade)
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Referral Booth & Interfaith Rainbow Chapel
Opportunity to share about our inclusive spiritual communities
Rita Goldberger is coordinating our Interfaith Rainbow Chapel and Referral booths at the San Francisco Pride Celebration.
The booths will be in operation at the Pride Celebration Saturday, June 29 from 12:00 p.m. until 5:00 p.m. and Sunday, June 30, 11:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. The booths will be located on McAllister, between Larkin & Hyde, on the side of the street opposite from the Asian Art Museum. Spaces: S008 & S009. Do not bring large bags due to security!
The Referral booth offers information from many of the local spiritual communities which welcome and affirm LGBT people. Communities are asked to provide literature or volunteer to help staff the booth and answer people's questions. The Interfaith Rainbow Chapel is a space we offer LGBT-inclusive congregations so that they may connect with the LGBT community. Activities at the Rainbow Chapel have included handing out tattoos; offering communion; personalized prayer; blessings over couples; a Christian Science Reading Room; a Muslim Prayer Service; a Quaker silent meeting for worship; and a time for Buddhist chanting. Hint: Handing out pride related items (stickers, bookmarks, queer religious art, key chains, bottled water) gets visitor's attention. Please contact Rita Goldberger if your congregation would to take an hour slot on Saturday or Sunday.
Volunteers who want to help Rita Goldberger staff the referrals booth can come by at any time, for an hour or more, or any length of time, during festival hours. Bring your spiritual community's literature and flyers about upcoming LGBT events on Saturday or Sunday after 10 a.m. Congregations and clergy are invited to offer ritual, prayers, blessings and spiritual support. For more information, to volunteer, or schedule use of the chapel and to make arrangements for literature, call Rita Goldberger at (415) 640-4439 or reply to this email
Help us get the word out by inviting folks to the event on Facebook.
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Many Traditions, #UnitedinSpirit
United in Spirit has launched the We are #UnitedinSpirit Pride Campaign to help members of the LGBTQ community find safe and supportive spiritual spaces.
United in Spirit hosts a list of inclusive spiritual communities on our website and we are listing special pride religious services and events so that the LGBTQ community and the San Francisco Bay Area may know that there are churches, synagogues, mosques, and related religious organizations which welcome and affirm LGBTQ people.
For a listing of services and events, please visit http://unitedinspiritsf.org.
The Facebook campaign is at https://www.facebook.com/unitedinspirit.
Campaign press release: click here
Please include the tagline/hashtag: We are #UnitedinSpirit when promoting your pride service or event. To update your congregation's listing on our website or to be included in this campaign, reply to this email.
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LESBIAN GOSPEL SINGER AVAILABLE FOR CONCERT
 This Sunday June 23rd marks the 50th anniversary to the day of the summer night in 1969 that 16 year old Marsha Stevens wrote the much loved Jesus music classic, “For Those Tears I Died.” Marsha — who the encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Music has dubbed “The Mother of CCM,” and who was the first CCM artist to publicly come out as gay back in 1980 (!!) — will be at Oak Life Church in Oakland this Sunday to celebrate the day with a special 50th anniversary performance for their young, growing congregation. Services at 10am at the New Parkway Theater, 474 24th Street.
Marsha Stevens came to the Bay Area a little ahead of time to minister at friends’ churches in Berkeley and Martinez last weekend, and will be here all this week. So if anyone would like her in for an impromptu Friday, Saturday or Sunday night Pride talk/ mini-concert, just give a holler to the emails below. She has a new book that tells the story of how she came to write “For Those Tears I Died;” her life in the Jesus Movement, and what happened to that life when she came out; and the much better things that happened after, when she finally found inclusive churches and came back as a fully inclusive, fully out LGBT Christian artist.
(PS She’s got her old folk guitar, and new tracks on her iPhone with a portable Bose speaker to play them on - so don’t let the ancient aol email fool you too much. She can perform wherever she finds herself - technology or no - and would love to.)
ssbalm@aol.com
cjbarker@berkeley.edu
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CONTRIBUTE
More than $2,000 in financial contributions are needed each year to cover parade registration, insurance and cable car rental fees. We are asking participating individuals, churches, associations, presbyteries and conferences to join with us in supporting this all-volunteer effort. The cable car enables us to accommodate those who have difficulty or would otherwise be unable to participate in the parade.
CONTRIBUTIONS ARE TAX-DEDUCTIBLE
Your gift supports the efforts of United in Spirit to share about life-affirming spirituality with the LGBT community. Your donations are tax-deductible, safe, and secure. United in Spirit is a project of Dignity/SF which is a 501(c)(3) religious nonprofit organization. Any excess contributions will be applied to next year's expenses.
ONLINE CONTRIBUTIONS
DONATE ONLINE through Dignity/SF's secure PayPal page. Click "Add a note" under the amount and enter "United in Spirit. Then send an email to mleslie.online@gmail.com with the name of the contributor and the amount of your donation.
BY CHECK OR ONLINE 'BILL PAY'
Make payable to Dignity/SF and send to the following address:
DIGNITY/SF
1329 7th Ave
San Francisco, CA 94122
Write "United in Spirit” on the memo line.
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