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Gay Pride Parade — San Francisco The San Francisco Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Celebration, usually known as San Francisco Pride, is a parade and festival held at the end of June each year in San Francisco, California, to celebrate the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender ( LGBT ) people and their allies. The 44th annual parade in 2014 included over 200 parade contingents, and is described on the official website as "the largest gathering of LGBT people and allies in the nation . Parade The San Francisco Pride parade is a world-renowned LGBT pride parade. It is held on Sunday morning of the Festival. The route is usually west along San Francisco's Market Street, from Steuart Street to 8th Street and it runs from 10:30 am until almost 3:00 pm. Participants line up off the parade route in advance of the start of the parade. Contingents The parade consists of hundreds of contingents from various groups and organizations. Some of the mo...

Running of the Bulls Running of the Bulls Festival  The Running of the Bulls (in Spanish: encierro , from the verb encerrar , "to corral , to enclose ") is a practice that involves running in front of a small group of cattle , typically six , of the toro bravo breed that have been let loose on a course of a sectioned-off subset of a town's streets . The most famous running of the bulls is held during the eight-day festival of Sanfermines in honour of Saint Fermin in Pamplona, although they are also traditionally held in other places such as towns and villages across Spain, Portugal , in some cities in Mexico ,and southern France during the summer . The origin of this event comes from the need to transport the bulls from the fields outside the city,  where they were bred, to the bullring, where they would be killed in the evening. During this ' run ', youngsters would jump among them to show off their bravado. In Pamplona and other pl...