LGBTQ bar and nightclub owners and managers were surprised this week to find announcements online this week for “The Official Pride Bar Crawl — Dallas” which, surprisingly enough, doesn’t crawl into any of the LGBTQ bars/clubs/restaurants or, in fact, anywhere near the Oak Lawn gayborhood.
The official Pride Bar Crawl – Dallas, presented by Top Shelf Crawls was being billed as the “official” bar crawl of Dallas in posts on Facebook and on its EventBrite page, and claimed to have “teamed up with Dallas Pride for the Official Pride Bar Crawl” on June 11.
The Facebook post and the EventBrite page both included the official Dallas Pride logo but that logo was removed from the Facebook post after Dallas Pride Executive Director Jaron Turnbow contacted the company.
The EventBrite page, as of this writing, has been taken off line. The Official Pride Bar Crawl – Dallas post was also taken down, it appears.