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Pride 2014 – Poets Laureate – Marilyn Monroe

The 44th San Francisco Pride Celebration and Parade was June 29, 2014. This is a fun event — most everybody there is high on Pride. I get there early and shoot the build up of the day, the staging. It’s fun, and since I started hanging out a lot with Mrs Vera and her group, Verasphere, it’s even more social. Here are a few of my best from the day. Visit my photo site  and please don’t hesitate to hit the buy button located on every page.

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Early Morning
Mrs Vera	Michael Stone

Richmond, Ca, Poets Laureate

The City of Richmond, California had so many fine candidates for the position of Poet Laureate, of such diversity, that we felt compelled to choose three people to represent us: Donte Clark, Brenda Quintanilla, and Lincoln Bergman. These are a few photos of Donte Clark; you can see more on my photo page.

Marilyn Monroe

The beautiful Marilyn Monroe had her birthday recently and I was able to get her to pose briefly.

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Carnaval San Francisco 2014

Carnaval was a blast (once again) this year!! Posted here are a few of my best photos from the day. Check out my photo site to see the whole set: http://photos.fletcho.com/Events/Carnaval-SF-2014/

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Ohio Street and How Weird Faire

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Ohio Street, Richmond, California
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The photos below were all taken at the How Weird Faire, San Francisco, May 4, 2014. How Weird is an annual event with lots of loud music (ten stages in a fairly small area), and lots of dancing. Fun for one and all, young and old, but mostly young.
Composite image of two young women dancing together.

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Pete Seeger Memorial

There was a great community gathering two weeks ago at the Freight and Salvage, in Berkeley. It was a joyful and heartfelt turnout to honor the memory of Pete Seeger. The evening was hosted by Holly Near, and featured Ronnie Gilbert, Barbara Dane, Johnny Harper, Country Joe McDonald, Wavy Gravy, Vicki Randle, Lichi Fuentes, Fernando Feña Torres, Joel Rafael, Evie Ladin, Keith Terry, Erik Pearson, Gerry Tenney, Bill Amanteek, Robin Flower, Barbara Higbie, Shelley Doty, Roy Zimmerman, Blame Sally, and more. I was pleased to be able to take photographs that night. There are a few images below, and you can see the rest at photos.fletcho.com

Pete Seeger Memorial Concert (Click on images to see larger view)
Vicki Randle	Denis Schmidt, Madelina Zayas
Wavy Gravy
Gerry Tenney	Barbara Dane
Ronnie Gilbert
Libby McClaren, Robin Flower
Shelly Doty

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