We have been kindly invited to join the SFZC parade contingent of the SF LGBT+ Parade Sunday, June 26th 2022, Historically it has been acceptable if you wish, to wear an HSZC/Issan-ji temple t-shirt to promote our temple too if you own any from the past few designs that have been developed.
Please both join us this month @ Issan-ji to continue to be a part of one of the world’s only and longest running Buddhist spaces with a particular focus as it was founded and still is primarily attended and funded for and by the LGBT+ community & walk in the parade.
Here are details if you wish to join the march/walk and if you intend to go or can serve as a safety monitor please let us know so we can let SFZC organizers know.
As of now, below are the full details on the march/parade we have and more to come, also please for more and to notify SFZC email: tetsugen.keido@yahoo.com (Keido) to get updates and he can advise SFZC of your attendance.
“We will gather at 300 Page Street at 9:30 a.m. and take Muni together to the spot assigned to our contingent. If people prefer to meet us there, I will send our contingent number and meet-up location once we receive that information. We’ll have a truck for those who’d like to ride rather than walk and will be decorating the truck while we wait to begin marching. The theme of this year’s parade is Love Will Keep Us Together. Some of us will be wearing robes or other Zen clothing, others of us will be dressing creatively. You are welcome to create banners. Here’s a link to the parade website. We’ll need some volunteers to be contingent monitors (for safety); SF Pride provides a brief online training for that role.”
