Marsha H. Levine

Marsha H. Levine is an LGBTQI+ activist and Pride movement organizer.

She is the founder of InterPride and has been active in leading other organizations related to LGBTQI+ Pride events since 1980. She served as San Francisco's Pride Parade Manager for 18 years, and then their Community Relations Manager for another nearly 6 years.

Marsha was born in Washington, D.C., and spent the first 6 years of her life growing up in Virginia before her family relocated to Newton, Massachusetts (just outside Boston). When she was about 12-years-old, they moved to Greenwich, Connecticut. In 1968, as the war in Vietnam waged and unrest grew on national college campuses, so did Marsha's awareness of human and civil rights issues. This continued through her early college years, up until she joined the Boston Lesbian/Gay Pride Committee in 1980 (having returned to Massachusetts), and then focused on LGBTQI+ rights, she became their President in 1982.

She moved to San Francisco in December 1985 and was immediately recruited to join the then-called San Francisco Lesbian and Gay Freedom Day Committee, serving in a variety of roles during the next 38 years.

Levine was recently one of four Vice Presidents of Global Outreach & Partnership Management at InterPride for 8 years, and Co-President of USAP (United States Association of Prides) for 4 years.Other past positions include working on and serving as President of the Boston Lesbian/Gay Pride Committee, and upon moving to San Francisco in 1985, the San Francisco Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Pride Parade and Celebration Committee, Inc, serving as President in 1990, and the pre-Executive Director role of overall Co-Chair (with Ggreg Taylor) in 1993.

In January 2018, Levine became the Community Relations and Facilities Manager for the San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration Committee.