A group of about 12 protestors brought the San Francisco 2019 Pride Parade to a halt on Sunday (30 June).
About an hour after the parade began, protestors blocked Market Street by chaining themselves together under rainbow tubes, according to SF Gate.
Other pride attendees also pushed and shoved police officers, CBS reports.
Police arrested at least two people. But, authorities cleared the protest by noon and the march continued.
A group of activists block Market Street to protest corporate involvement in the Pride Parade.
📹:@gabriellelurie pic.twitter.com/cg8gtVm6Ed— San Francisco Chronicle (@sfchronicle) June 30, 2019
The protestors shouted ‘Stonewall was a riot’. On the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, where transgender women and people of color led a fight against police in New York.
People regard it as the birthplace of the modern LGBTI rights movement in the US.
‘The system of policing upholds white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, gender binaries and capitalist rule,’ protestors also shouted.
Police are leaving #protest at #pride #SanFrancisco pic.twitter.com/DrW4BimWyH
— Eric Dyer (@EricsOzone) June 30, 2019
Hundreds of thousands attended the 49th annual San Francisco Pride Parade, one of the largest in the USA.
More than 240 floats and contingents paraded along a route starting at Market Street and Beale Street.
What’s more, in a nod to the 50th anniversary of Stonewall, this year’s theme was ‘Generations of Resistance’.
