The 2015 San Francisco Pride Parade was held on June 28, and it was particularly joyous this year, taking place just two days after the Supreme Court’s historic Obergefell v. Hodges decision that legalized same-sex marriage in the US. An estimated 1 million people gathered along Market Street in downtown San Francisco to watch, and approximately 26,000 people marched in the parade, including librarians and staffers from San Francisco Public Library (SFPL), many of whom took a break from ALA Annual Conference activities to walk, carry signs, and ride bikes alongside SFPL’s Green Bookmobile and TechMobile.
Counterclockwise from top right: Keith Lu, bookmobile driver and library tech, waves a rainbow flag from the SFPL bookmobile; collections management assistant Alan Wong (center) and collections librarian Erin Dubois (right) strike a pose while waiting for the parade to begin; adult services librarian and bookmobile librarian Connie Porciuncula wears a pink wig in front of the TechMobile; Annemarie Dompe, student at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, holds a sign for Radclyffe Hall’s 1928 book The Well of Loneliness in front of the bookmobile; SFPL city librarian Luis Herrera rides a balloon-covered bike, and SFPL deputy city librarian Michael Lambert rides a skateboard ahead of SFPL’s marchers.
