Ever want to experience the roar and fabulousness of the SF Pride Parade from the middle of Market Street? Then join the Band’s new Flag Corps! No experience needed. No flags or uniform needed. All you need are comfortable shoes and a burning desire to add some flash to the world’s first openly LGBT music group for its 35th march up Market Street!

Our award-winning twirler, Ed Boeke – the Baron of Batons, the Sultan of Sequins – will teach you some simple-yet-flashy routines so you can help us glam up Pride.

Our next marching rehearsal is this Sunday, May 20. For info on this or future rehearsals, e-mail our Marching Director at marching [at] sflgfb [dot] org.

Come to Golden Gate Park and see the San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band perform at the biggest San Francisco band festival of 2012.

Free | Golden Gate Park Bandshell (officially called the Spreckels Temple of Music, Map)

34th Annual Pride Concert kicks off pride weekend with some of the flashiest music written for chorus and wind ensemble! First produced in 1979 by Band founder Jon Sims at Grace Cathedral, the Annual Pride Concert is one of the longest-running annual performances in San Francisco and represents one of the first forms of open artistic expression to come from Harvey Milk’s Castro and the LGBTQ community in San Francisco. Music by Lesbian/Gay Chorus of San Francisco, San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band and other Bay Area LGBTQ music groups promotes LGBTQ visibility. www.annualprideconcert.org

San Francisco Conservatory of Music, 50 Oak St at Van Ness, SF 94102 (Map)

The San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band takes to the road again for an out- of-town pops concert in the style of traditional summer bandstand concerts in the park. Come kick off pride month with great music in the great outdoors. The San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band plays its summer concert at the Lake Merritt Bandstand in Oakland, near Children’s Fairyland.