Year in review • Pride year-round
Some places have a Pride day or even Pride Weekend. Nationally we celebrate June as Pride Month. But here in North Texas, Pride lasts year-round.
Dallas Pride took place over the three days of the first weekend in June, starting Friday night, June 2, with the MetroBall featuring Debbie Gibson and Kristine W, with emcee Jada Pinkett Smith.
The annual Music Festival at Fair Park took place Saturday, June 3, and included numerous vendors and community organizations along with three stages of entertainment, with the Fly Queens and the Rose Room cast headlining the Drag Stage, and North Texas native Alison Ponthier headlining the lineup on the Main Stage.
On Sunday, June 4, the weekend wrapped up with the 2023 Alan Ross Texas Freedom Parade at Fair Park, led by four grand marshals: The LGBTQ Heterosexual Non-Transgender Ally Grand Marshal Liz Dyer, Female-Identifying LGBTQ Grand Marshal Ronnie Shue, Gender Non-Conforming Non-Binary Grand Marshal Kylee O’Hara Fatale and the Male-Identifying LGBTQ Grand Marshal Ashton Hammer.
