I am reposting from a 3 year post I wrote on CW refrences to Chelsea Manning’s deadname as much of the info was from 2013 before we knew publicly she is trans.

Bay Area Reporter which Wikileaks linked has memory holded the OG article

https://x.com/wikileaks/status/328248564276944896

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Pride

2013 Chelsea Manning controversy On April 24, 2013, Pride announced that its electoral college had chosen U.S. Army Private First Class Chelsea (then known as Bradley) Manning as Community Grand Marshal in absentia for the 43rd annual Gay Pride Parade. Two days later, Pride’s board president vetoed the election, declaring it “an error” due to a “systemic failure that now has become apparent and will be rectified.” The board subsequently explained that the category in which Manning was elected is restricted to “a local hero (individual) not being a celebrity”—neither of which befit Manning.

Both the election and its nullification proved contentious. On April 29, an estimated 200 protesters disrupted the board’s meeting, demanding that PFC Manning be reinstated.On May 7,21 individual Manning supporters and 5 organizational signatories filed a formal Complaint of Unlawful Discrimination with the San Francisco Human Rights Commission, noting that SF Pride received $58,400 from the City and County of San Francisco’s Grants for the Arts Program in fiscal year 2012–2013. On May 12, the board said it would meet “in a larger venue after the 2013 Celebration and Parade [to] allow people from all sides of that issue and others to fully air and hear one another’s viewpoints, without jeopardizing the production of this year’s event and the safety and security of the attendees.” Standing firm by its decision, the board said it would not "let one issue, as important as it is to some, overshadow the concerns and interests of the hundreds of thousands who attend SF Pride."On June 7, 2013, the board announced that since none of the alternatives submitted at a May 31 community forum garnered a consensus majority, the board’s decision to rescind PFC Manning’s grand marshalship would stand. The board also reported that the San Francisco Human Rights Commission had declined to investigate the discrimination claims filed against SF Pride.

San Francisco Pride, Chelsea Manning, and Queer Assimilation

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activists in the LGBTQ community quickly organized around the proposal of Bradley (Chelsea) Manning—which was then rescinded—as a candidate for Grand Marshall in that year’s SF Pride Parade. 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. 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.

Bezos Post has also memory holed it

Bradley Manning is off limits at SF Gay Pride parade, but corporate sleaze is embraced 2013 article before they knew Chelsea is trans.

Video of activists protesting SF Pride organizers

Video of Kopmala as 2013 Grand Marshall of SF Pride

Video Daniel Ellsberg will march for at Pride

More than 1000 supporters of Iraq and Afghan war whistle-blower Bradley Manning marched in San Francisco’s 2013 Pride Parade. Represented in the Manning contingent were the groups The ‘Bradley Manning Support Network’, ‘Courage to Resist’, ‘Afghans For Peace’, ‘Iraq Veterans Against The War’, and many others.

In part, the numbers for this contingent were bolstered by the actions of Lisa L Williams, SF Pride President. Back in April, an announcement came from someone at the SF Pride office that Bradley would be given the honor of Honorary Grand Marshal of the parade, but this was very quickly rescinded in a statement released by Ms. Williams: “That was an error and that person has been disciplined. He does not now, nor did he at that time, speak for SF Pride.”

She went on to speak more personalized and condemning words about PFC Manning: “Bradley Manning is facing the military justice system of this country. We all await the decision of that system. However, until that time, even the hint of support…” for Manning “…will not be tolerated by the leadership of San Francisco Pride. It is, and would be, an insult to everyone, gay and straight, who has ever served in the military of this country.”

Vietnam War whistle-blower Daniel Ellsberg: “I don’t hint at support for Bradley Manning, I couldn’t be louder.” He went on to promise he’d be representing Bradley at the Pride parade, a promise that he made good on as he rode in the back of an old truck with the Manning contingent…carrying a mask of Manning signifying the popular saying: “I am Bradley Manning.”

A banner as wide as Market St. fronted the march: “Pride In Our Whistle-blower”. Hundreds of other signs, and flags and thousands of stickers with Manning’s name and likeness were all over the crowd. During staging and down the parade route, many in the contingent handed out literature to the Pride Parade crowd: “Do you know Bradley Manning’s story?”

Set to live music from ‘The Brass Liberation Orchestra’, the crowd chanted all the way down the parade route:

“LGBT Bradley Manning speaks for me! LGBTQ Bradley Manning speaks for you!”