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Pink Triangle Display in 2007 is: two days only, Saturday, June
23rd and Sunday, June 24th Twin Peaks, San Francisco.Directions
*Next Pink
Triangle Installation in 2007 is: 7:00AM to 10:00AM Saturday June
23rd, WE NEED VOLUNTEERS !! Even if you can only help
for an hour!! Call Patrick at (415) 247-1100 ext.142 or (415)
929-0250. Please help us get the word out because many people
are needed to install it and take it down. Bring hammers and work
gloves.
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Location: Twin Peaks vista point/overlook parking lot. Directions
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Pink Triangle T-shirts, coffee, donuts will be provided for all
those that get up early to help out.
*The 2007 Commemoration
Ceremony is: 10:30AM, Saturday, June 23rd. Rolf Schutte, the Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany, the country where the pink triangle was invented in WWII in the concentration camps is our featured special guest along with Eric Alva, who was the first US soldier wounded in the war in Iraq (losing a leg for his country) and now has become an outspoken critic of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'. Also making a guest appearance will be Stuart Milk, Harvey Milk’s nephew. UPDATE: Actor Wilson Cruz, a star of the TV series 'Noahs Arc' will give the “History of the Pink Triangle”. Many of San Francisco’s elected officials will be speaking: Assemblyman Mark Leno, Senator Carole Migden, Supervisor Bevan Dufty, Supervisor Tom Ammiano, and Treasurer Jose Cisneros and others. The Celebrity Grand Marshalls of the PRIDE Parade will also be speaking. We are also delighted that the SF Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band will be performing again this year.
*See the recent Bay Area Reporter 5/31/07 article Pink Triangle Planning and 06/15/06 article: Pink Triangle Needs Volunteers" *The 2007 Pink
Triangle de-installation: take down of pink triangle is 5:00PM
to 8:00PM on Sunday, June 24th. WE NEED VOLUNTEERS
again to take the pink triangle down (and lovingly fold it
up) !!
*In 2006, Mayor Gavin Newsom was our featured guest speaker. Check out last years' 2005 pictures! Our 2005 celebrity guest speakers were Ambassador James Hormel, Assemblyman Mark Leno, Senator Carole Migden,
Supervisor Tom Ammiano, Supervisor Bevan Dufty, Treasurer Jose Cisneros.
Telling the "History of the Pink Triangle" was from the U.S. Holocaust
Museum in Washington D.C. was Ted Phillips. Also speaking were Lifetime
achievement Grand Marshall "Empress" Jose Sarria; Ilene Chaiken the
creator and executive producer of Showtime's "The L-Word"; actor Alex
Mapa; and Pro football player Esera Tualo. The SF Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band also played.
*Check out 2004 pictures! Our 2004 celebrity guest speakers were Bruce Vilanchi, Sylvia Guerrero and
and British talk show host Graham Norton. Bruce Vilanchi gave the history of the pink triangle. Graham Norton was the Emcee. Sylvia Guerrero, mother of Gwen Araujo, a transgender 17-year-old who was slain
in 2002 after acquaintances learned she was anatomically male, gave the keynote talk. The San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom
Band also performed. Other speakers in attendance were: Tom
Ammiano, Mark Leno, Susan Leal, and Bevan Dufty .
*Our 2003 guest speaker was Alice
Hoglan, mother of Mark Bingham the San Francisco gay
man believed to have been among the passengers who struggled with
terrorists for control of the doomed Flight 93 on Sept. 11, 2001,
will be the featured speaker. The San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom
Band performed. Other speakers in attendance were: Tom
Ammiano, Mark Leno, Carol Migden, Susan Leal and Bevan Dufty. Many thanks to all our speakers for their appearance!
*A BIG Thank You to all the volunteers
who lent a hand, heart and hammer to make the pink triangle display possible in 2004 and previous years !
Pink Triangle starts on front page under "Power of Pride"
with the full article on page 31 in the June 24th, 2004 edition of the B.A.R
for more coverage.
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