This year the SF Citadel plans to have the biggest presence we have ever had in the LGBT Pride Parade. We will be marching with the LEATHER PRIDE CONTINGENT again.

We will have a truck with flogging demos, and a trailer with our wonderful house band Cuir Blue, playing live bring pulled by the truck.

We also plan on:

Pony carts being pulled by human ponies

Dancing boys and girls

Hot men and Women snapping single tails

Marchers in leather

Come and join us and march in the parade. If you have been to the Pride Parade before, you know how fun it can be. If you haven't ever walked down Market Street with hundreds of Leather Folk in the Leather Contingent, now is the time. There is nothing like it. Marchers get the very best view of the crowd and have all the fun.

We want you to join us and march with us on Sunday in the parade. Check out the entire pride page at:

www.sfpride.org/

It costs nothing to march and if you are shy, wear a mask or a hood. It's ok to not show your face.

We need contingent monitors and wheel monitors. The parade requires one trained person for every 25 people and we need two for each axle. Our truck has 2 axles and our trailer has 2, therefore, we need 8 people to be wheel monitors and more to be contingent monitors.

Training is held this week. Please attend one of the classes. Please write "LEATHER PRIDE CONTINGENT" on your card after your training.

Here is the official request, time and dates for the training from the head of the Leather Contingent, Jay Hemphill:

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Hi Everyone,

I just wanted to remind everyone of the Monitor Training coming up. Please help push people to get Monitor training, people in your clubs, organizations, relatives friends, etc. I've listed the locations, dates, and times below. Even if by some chance they find out that they can't make it parade day, it would help so much for everyone possible to take the training.

At the training, the contingent name to put on the sign-in sheet is LEATHER PRIDE CONTINGENT. This year we will have 10 vehicles, which will take 40 wheel monitors alone. Plus, 8 more for every 100 marchers, and I estimate that will be 300-400, so 32 more monitors. We can't march if we don't have enough. They keep a running count of monitors trained for the SF Leather Pride Contingent, and it is updated after each training. Last year, the Leather Community really came together and we had enough of you that got trained as monitors to cover the contingent. I am asking you to do the same this year, and I'm sure you will!

2007 Monitor Training

Tuesday, June 12 8:30 PM Head Over Heels 1250 45th Street Emeryville, CA

Wednesday, June 13 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM SF Citadel 1277 Mission St., SF

Friday, June 15 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM SF Aids Foundation 995 Market St. 2nd Floor

Saturday, June 16, 2007 3:30 to 4:30 PM LGBT Center 1800 Market St., SF (ROOM # TBA, but is same room as SF Leather Pride Contingent final meeting at 2:30 PM.

Sunday, June 17 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM Castro Country Club 4058 18th Street., SF



Yours in Leather,

Jay Hemphill, Chairman

San Francisco Leather Pride Contingent

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Let's show the world how the wonderful leather families can come together and have a huge turn out. Lets support our kinky lifestyle and march proudly.

The Leather Contingent meets down by the Embarcadero and the parade walks up Market street and ends at 8th St. The Celebration is in Civic Center.

This will be a great day. Lets join hands and join the largest pride parade in the country.

This isn't work, this is exciting fun.

Let us know

Phil