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The first pro-LGBT event in DFW occurred in 1972; it was an unorganized march in Downtown Dallas. [5] The first official gay pride parade took place in June 1980. [6] Since then, both the Dallas and Fort Worth metropolitan divisions of the Metroplex have held their own separate gay pride festivals.
The event, which is usually surrounded by other activities throughout the first week of October, was put on hold in 2020 and 2021 due to the pandemic.
LGBTQ+ advocates recall the ugliness gay people faced in North Texas.
Dallas Black Pride (also known as Dallas Southern Pride) is an annual five-day event to celebrate the emerging black LGBT community in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. [1] The event has been in existence since 1996. [2] It is held in conjunction with the State Fair of Texas and State Fair Classic in Dallas every fall (late September/early ...
Queer Liberaction (QL) is a Dallas–Fort Worth, Texas-based grassroots organization advocating for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights. [1] The group was founded in November 2008 following the international attention surrounding California's Proposition 8, which changed that state's Constitution to deny marriage rights to any LGBT couples who are not defined as "a man and a woman ...
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In early 1982, the newly formed Human Rights Campaign Fund (HRCF), which became the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) under the leadership of Executive Director Elizabeth Birch in the late 1990s, designated one of its leaders, Jim Foster, to make contact with the gay communities of several larger cities to test their interest in holding a formal fund-raising dinner to support HRCF. [4]
So what if a handful of whiners have a problem with it? Freedom of choice is what Texas and this country are all about. | Opinion