Oakland was Proud: Photos & Report from Oakland Pride 2011

Published on Monday, September 05, 2011
Last updated on 06:56AM, Friday, September 9, 2011
Pride photo by Curtis Germany, GZPhotoz.com, http://www.flickr.com/photos/oaklandlocal/6115498821/in/photostream/

Pride photo by Curtis Germany, GZPhotoz.com, http://www.flickr.com/photos/oaklandlocal/6115498821/in/photostream/

As many as 100,000 came into downtown Oakland this weekend for the second annual Oakland Pride festival, which had a new emphasis on family and youth. And of course--many of those visitors were Oakland's own--Oakland has the third highest rate of same-sex couples after San Francisco and Seattle, according to an analysis of 2010 census data by UCLA's Williams Institute for Sexual Orientation Law and is said to have the highest concentration of female couples. OL's Curtis Jermany was on hand and took some photos just for OL:

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Susan Mernit is the founder of Oakland Local. She is also a circuit rider for The Community Information Challenge, a program of The John S and James L Knight Foundation, and a consultant to non-profit and community organizations. Susan lives in North Oakland, near the Santa Fe school, with her partner, her housemate, a rescue dog named Cazzie, and a yard full of ants. She is an aspiring gardener, a long-time blogger & entrepreneur, and a recovering journalist who's found home in Oakland.