When they learned of the massacre in Orlando, they had already planned their 3 rd Annual Gay Pasta Night benefit and had chosen Art for AIDS and the Alliance Health Project as the recipients of the proceeds from the dinner.
“It is an opportunity for all of us to not only celebrate diversity within the community, but also to recognize those who have fought for our rights and dignities.” “Pride represents all the steps we have taken to get where we are as an LGBTQ community,” she said. This time of year is our anniversary, so that has a particularly special meaning for us.”ĭana also emphasized the historical importance of Pride. “My wife and I got together around Pride and we’ve been together nine years. “The entire month is truly a time of celebrating the gay culture and community, and it’s a time when I really love the fact that we live in San Francisco,” said Rachel. It’s no surprise then that the month of Pride is particularly meaningful to the couple. Throughout the year, they donate time and funds to a number of LGBTQ charities in San Francisco including Frameline, the San Francisco International LGBTQ Film Festival QWOCMAP, the Queer Women of Color Film Festival Project Open Hand SF, which provides home delivered meals, groceries, and nutrition counseling to people living with HIV/AIDS SF PRIDE San Francisco’s Trans March and Dyke March and the Fresh Meat Festival of Transgender & Queer Performance. Rachel Herbert and Dana Oppenheim, the married couple who own the popular Precita Park Café in the Bernal Heights neighborhood, are pillars of the LGBTQ community in San Francisco. Rachel Herbert & Dana Oppenheim, married co-owners of Precita Park Café, San Francisco history, we spoke to LGBTQ leaders of the restaurant industry about their very personal reactions to the tragedy. In response to what has been called the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. But these days of rainbows and parades have been darkened by the June 12th massacre at Pulse, an LGBT-friendly nightclub in Orlando, in which Omar Mateen murdered 49 people and critically injured 53.
June is Pride Month, 30 days celebrating gay life and commemorating the 1969 Stonewall riots in Manhattan-a critical turning point for the Gay Liberation Movement in the United States.