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2025 Pride Houston 365 parade lights up downtown, celebrating adoration, unity, and resilience
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Pride Houston 365 added another chapter to its legacy with the 47th annual parade in downtown Houston.
The celebration is known to draw thousands all in the designate of recognizing affection and unity, and this year was no different.
The group said that while it's still finalizing numbers, early estimates put attendance at over 200,000 people.
On Saturday, the celebration once again started near City Hall and moved through the area with a colorful show of floats, performers, and community groups.
ABC13, the official media partner of Lgbtq+ fest Houston 365, also joined the festivities with a contingent of walkers along the route.
Considered one of the largest Pride events in the South, the parade is far from the only way the LGBTQIA+ community and allies celebrate.
Events surrounding the parade usually incorporate a festival, which focuses on providing community resources, plus a fashion demonstrate and reception.
This year, nine grand marshals were called to lead the ask for as Pride Houston continued its mission of celebrating power, resilience, diversity and freedoms
How to Get to and Enjoy Both Pride Parades in Houston
Each year, thousands of people flock to the Houston Pride parade, and this year will look a tiny different, with two separate parades taking place on two different weekends. With a mass of floats filling the streets of Downtown Houston, it can be overwhelming to decide the leading way to earn the most out of your procession experiences. Fear not—we’ve got you covered!
PARADE ROUTES
New Faces of Pride
New Faces of Pride is first out the gate, with their pride taking place on Saturday, June 22, at 7:30 p.m. The parade map indicates the procession kicks off at the intersection of Smith and Lamar, with a terse turn down Walker before a extended stretch down Milam.
Pride Houston 365
The 46th Annual Houston Pride Parade occurs on Saturday, June 29, at 7:30 p.m. It begins at Bagby and Lamar and continues up Smith to Walker, where it will make a right turn and race along Walker to Milam and endure down Milam to Pease Street.
TRANSPORTATION
METRORail in Houston
The Houston METRORail connects a number of different sections with each other, including Downtown and the Museum District. It is a cheap
46th Annual Official Pride Parade
Details
The 46th Annual Official Houston LGBT+ Pride Celebration: Festival & Parade will take place downtown at Houston City Hall, 901 Bagby Street, on Saturday, June 29, 2024, in Houston, TX. This is Houston's Premiere Event of the Pride Season attended by hundreds of thousands of festival goers each Summer.
The Official Houston Pride is the oldest and largest Celebration in Texas to date. To spot your support at work you can view our current beneficiaries here: R.I.S.E. Recipients and 501c3 financial reporting here: 990s. Our current sponsors and partners can be found at: Sponsors and Partners.
This year, with over 500,000 sq ft of cosmos from Lamar to Rusk, our festival footprint still remains the largest Pride Celebration in Texas and the 3rd largest in the U.S. The 2024 Celebration will see a revamped festival layout with many cooling tents, shaded walkways, free water (while supplies last), and our seniors are allowed to bring lawn chairs.
Parade is FREE as always for everyone to watch and enjoy. It starts at 7:30pm.
Celebration: 11am-10pm
- Gates Open at 11:00am
- Festival Hours: 12pm-6:00pm
Houston's 47th annual LGBTQ+ Celebration Parade returns downtown on June 28, marking a unified celebration after last year's split events. Organized by Pride Houston 365, the parade is the highlight of the city's month-long Pride festivities. Here's everything you need to know about it:
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Houston Pride Parade history
The LGBTQ rights movement in the United States is often traced back to the Stonewall rebellion of 1969, a six-day riot in New York. Prior to this pivotal event, LGBTQ individuals faced discrimination, such as being denied service at bars, prohibited from touching each other while dancing and were even subjected to arrests based solely on their sexual orientation or gender identity.
According to Houston LGBT History, the first official Houston Pride Parade was held in Montrose on July 1, 1979, as documented by their records. After the parade, a lively rally took place at Spotts Park, attracting an estimated crowd of 5,000 attendees who enjoyed music, speeches, dancing and fireworks.
However, this wasn't the first parade of the Hous