In April 2013, San Francisco Pride seemed to take an exciting step with the nomination of queer military whistleblower Chelsea (née Bradley) Manning as a grand marshal for the 2013 Pride parade. From parade officials' support of the military to legalization of gay marriage to the Manning contingent as the largest non-corporate contingent in the parade, politics within the movement is explored. The controversy regarding Manning highlighted problems in the evolution of the largest LGBT gathering in the nation and indeed in the gay rights movement itself. In 2013, activists in the LGBTQ community quickly organized around the proposal of Bradley (Chelsea) Manning-which was then rescinded-as a candidate for Grand Marshall in that year's SF Pride Parade.
