only in the SF Bay Area

I do love that I live in an area where this conflict of events can actually occur.

Giants' AIDS game, Gay Pride conflict
Ray Delgado, Chronicle Staff Writer Friday, January 24, 2003

San Francisco -- The San Francisco Giants have stumbled into a public relations nightmare with a proposal to move the popular "Until There's a Cure Day" game to June 29 this season, the same day the city's annual Gay Pride celebration roars through town.

The Giants -- who in 1994 became the first professional sports team in the nation to host an AIDS-related community outreach event -- have usually held the fund-raiser in August and attracted many gay fans.

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"We have been discussing it," Daum said. "It is very likely that (the date conflict) is not going to occur because we want to do what's right for the communities that we're trying to reach out to. Internally, (Giants officials) still have been going back and forth with the possibilities."

The Giants originally changed the date to drum up publicity for the 10th anniversary of the event and mentioned the date change in their latest newsletter. They were also trying to make it more of a Bay Area event, since the Giants are playing the Oakland A's on June 29.

Daum said the team did not think about the Gay Pride parade as a possible conflict and realized the scheduling conflict only two weeks ago, when parade organizers called it to their attention.