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UPDATE: SF Giant’s Orange Carpet Event at Castro Theatre a Success

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SF Giants Pitcher & 2012 World Series Champ, Sergio Romo
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This past Tuesday the San Francisco Giants premiered 2012 World Series Film, a movie chronicling their season’s effort at The Castro Theatre. This sold out, special event screening of the soon to be released DVD doubled as a benefit fundraiser for one of the team’s favorite local causes, The San Francisco Food Bank, whom they donated $10,000 to help carry on their good work.

Beloved former San Francisco Giant, Dave Dravecky-infamous left handed pitcher, member of the ’89, Battle of the Bay World Series Giants team-was the guest of honor. Joining Mr. Dravecky  was Hall of Famer, Orlando Cepeda, San Francisco mayor Ed Lee, San Francisco native, movie narrator, and television/film star, Benjamin Bratt, clubhouse manager Mike Murphy, Giants pres./CEO Larry Baer, manager Bruce Bochy, announcer Jon Miller among other local luminaries. Also on hand were 1500 of the most loyal and happy fans in all of baseballdom.

Giants P.A. announcer Renel Brooks-Moon acted as M.C., introducing several of the special guests. Bochy got the biggest ovation, but that could be because he was carrying the World Series trophy down the aisle.

Asked for his thoughts on the event Benjamin Bratt said, “Baseball to me was always more than a game and the San Francisco Giants were always more than a team.” The crowd of fans seemed to concur as they enthusiastically awarded the film a standing ovation at it’s conclusion.

Photographs by the amazingly talented, San Francisco artist, Steven Underhill. More pictures from the evening found here on the Castro Theatre’s Facebook page.

Castro Theatre Marquee SF Giants 2012 World Series film premiere 11/20/12 photo©StevenUnderhill 2012
World Series Trophy SF Giants 2012 World Series film premiere 11/20/12 photo©StevenUnderhill 2012
Benjamin Bratt SF Giants 2012 World Series film premiere 11/20/12 photo©StevenUnderhill 2012
Jon Miller, Bruce Bochy, Lou Seal SF Giants 2012 World Series film premiere photo©StevenUnderhill 2012
Giants fans on pins & needles pre-movie at the historic Castro Theatre SF Giants 2012 World Series film premiere 11/20/12 photo©StevenUnderhill 2012

 

 

Castro’s Giants’ Celebration Aftermath: Thousands of Dollars in Damages

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We’re sad to report that the celebration for the City’s beloved baseball team, The Giants’, winning the World Series over the Detroit Tigers in the Castro has left two non-profits and two businesses with broken windows and everyone shaking their heads wondering, ‘why’?

Post win thousands poured into the streets all over San Francisco including the Castro. Within an hour the GLBT Historical Museum, San Francisco Magnet-San Francisco AIDS Foundations Gay men’s health care center and Harvey’s Bar-all located on 18th street between Castro and Collingwood-had huge plate glass windows smashed by celebrating  vandal/’fans’. These massive, plate glass, windows will cost thousands of dollars each to replace and will deplete already limited budgets on the part of the all those effected. On the main strip, Outfit on Castro Street, also experienced the wrath of the vandals having had their wooden, front door windows smashed out as well.

What a disappointment and sad turn of events on a day when we all should be enjoying the afterglow of winning such a coveted event. Instead Magnet and the GLBT Museum were shuttered today due to the damage.

We hope anyone that saw what happened can help the SFPD find and arrest the culprits who attacked our own. If you have a tip on who these vandals are you can leave it anonymously HERE. If you took pictures while the damage was happening you can also forward those anonymously or send them to us and we’ll post them. This is not how SF Queers celebrate success. We as a community cannot condone or be complicit in this type of outrageous behavior.

If you can donate to the GLBT Historical Society or Magnet just click the highlighted names here and you’ll be linked directly to help defray the large dent this will put in their non-profit budgets. Help Harvey’s out by stopping by and having a bite or a drink to support them and offset the huge cost of replacing these windows. Stop by Outfit on Castro Street and check out their selection of fine clothes and consider making a purchase.

Magnet SF

Harvey’s Windows. Photo: Gerard Koskovich

Outfit on Castro Street