Guess who’s back
The Strip on Cedar Springs is at the heart of the Oak Lawn Gayborhood, and a new organization call Pride in Dallas, is planning to bring the city’s Pride celebration back here in September.(David Taffet/Dallas Voice) New Pride in Dallas organization aims to bring back a September Pride celebration in the Gayborhood TAMMYE NASH | Managing Editornash@dallasvoice.com All the folks who have been clamoring for Pride to return to the gayborhood are about to get their wish: A newly-formed organization called Pride in Dallas this week announced plans for a week-long “celebration of love” in mid-September, the time frame in which Dallas celebrated Pride for 35 years — from 1984 to 2018.
The weeklong celebration will start Monday, Sept. 12, with the main event set for Sunday, Sept. 18. Pride in Dallas, which was founded in May, is the “brainchild of several active members of the Dallas LGBTQ+ community who would like to bring Pride events back to the Dallas area commonly referred to as the Gayborhood,” noted a press release announcing the organization and its plans.
Board President James Ware said in the press release, “As a member of the Dallas queer community for nearly 40 years, I can tell you that Pride hasn’t been the same since it left its home on Cedar Springs in 2018.
There are many folks in our community who feel the same and would like to see Pride events in September — in our own neighborhood — like it was for three decades.” While the organization is planning a week of full events this coming September, organizers said this inaugural event will still be “a scaled-back version” of what they have in mind for 2023.
