TWIN PEAKS — Patrick Carney’s mother, Edith, always embraced his taste for the extravagant.

That includes the tarps he and a dozen friends purchased from Home Depot on a shoestring budget in 1995, painted “Mardi Gras pink” and installed on Twin Peaks on a dark June night. He’s stepped up as the annual event organizer ever since, inspired by the legacy that started with a light-hearted renegade (and technically illegal) craft project to add a DIY pop of color to San Francisco’s Pride.

“A pink triangle went up, rather than a rainbow flag – there are plenty of those in the Castro,” Carney said, “People thought it was just another abstract, colorful symbol for the gay community. It was only after that that I realized so many people didn’t know what it was, even people within the gay communit

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