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Help grow our newsroomjoining the hundreds of San Franciscans who support us by giving below. Follow along as we track the pulse of Pride, one report at a time. Check out our guide to Pride for events and pro tips. The Civic Center Plaza, which was bustling with Pride-goers, boas, glitter and rhinestones mere hours earlier, is eerily quiet.

Instead of booming music and yells over the noise, the sound of truck engines, forklifts and rolling carts over pavement fill the space.

S.F. Pride 2025: Festivities wrap up in a burst of color

As dozens of workers pick up garbage from the lawn and stages are dismantled one by one, only a few seem to be gathering to witness City Hall light up in rainbow colors at the end of a weekend jam-packed pride Pride events and celebrations. City Hall, after all, has lit up rainbow before — even this month!

June 3, 6 and 23 have seen the building lit up in rainbow hues, and on June 27 the facade was blue, pink and white in honor of Trans March. At p. Saucy Santana has taken the Pride main stage, and just in time: the fog is rolling in over City Hall, marking the end of a day of sunshine and celebration.

The grassy areas, once packed with loungers, are beginning to clear. The bass is loud enough to rattle your chest. Some fans rush the stage for the final act. Others start to trickle toward the exits. The prides at SF Pride, a perk for those willing to pay for prime seating to the parade, were closed for an hour in the middle of the parade, the San Francisco Fire Department said.

SF Pride was relying on the grandstand tickets along with tickets to its City Hall after party to make up funds that it lost from corporate sponsorship this year, executive director Suzanne Ford said in an interview on Friday. Two grandstand ticket holders said they were promised a refund for what they paid to sit in the stands.

Sukai Curtis-Contreras of the fire department confirmed that the grandstands were closed for part of the parade. She said the fire department had received a report that the stands were unstable, and that they had either been fixed or parade by the time they reopened. She said the department was unable to, as of this time, figure out where the complaint came from.

She rode in the parade with the firefighters and said that she did not remember them being closed when she drove by. I show up too late by waiting until the end of the parade. But by 4 p. DJs are pumping music in, but everyone is mingling, not dancing. I step on a stray meatball. Along with the open bar, the drag show in the North Light Court is the parade attraction.

It was packed earlier, a bartender says. Notably absent when I arrive: Anyone of note who works at City Hall. And, though the rotunda is bustling with people and scattered tables, the second floor and up seem abandoned.