!["Dykes on Bikes", the traditional leaders of the parade](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Dykes_On_Bikes.jpg/120px-Dykes_On_Bikes.jpg)
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 to celebrate lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people and their allies. The 40th anniversary parade in 2011 included over 200 parade contingents, and was the largest ever gathering of LGBT people and allies in the nation. (Dykes on Bikes pictured)