Sunday's /*Gay Pride Parade*/ began with the usual contingent of Dykes on Bikes. Organizers will use those numbers to fight the proposed constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages this November. The attendance this year is up due to the number of same sex couples coming from all over the nation here to San Francisco to get legally married. Organizers say this is the biggest parade ever, since close to one million people came.

This year's celebration has taken on extra meaning, following the California Supreme Court's decision to legalize /*same-sex marriage*/ and the state ballot measure designed to strike it down this fall.