Today, Dallas Gay Pride is one of the most widely celebrated and widely participated events for the LGBTQ+ community. In 2019, Dallas Pride officials decided to honor LGBTQ+ month by moving this pride events back to the month of June, which is the month that has been designated to honor the community and recognize the Stonewall Uprising. In 1991, it became the Alan Ross Texas Freedom Parade. In 1983, the parade was moved from June to the third Sunday in September and renamed the Texas Freedom Parade. The next official Dallas Gay Pride parade didn’t happen until June 1980.
In 1972, the first pride parade hit the streets of Dallas with between 250 and 300 men and women gathered to show their pride through Downtown Dallas. The first weekend of June brings a weekend of friendship and harmony for the LGBTQ+ community in central Texas. With Dallas Pride, June begins with a blaze of color as the LGBTQ+ community of Dallas paints the city rainbow in a fashion like none other.
