Houston gay pride parade 2024

Houston Pride Parade 2024

Saturday, June 29, 2024 - 11:00AM to 10:00PM CST

The 46th Annual Official Houston LGBT+ Pride Celebration®: Festival & Parade will take place downtown at Houston City Hall, 901 Bagby Street, on Saturday, June 29, 2024, in Houston, TX.

This is Houston's Premiere Event of the Pride Season attended by hundreds of thousands of festival goers each Summer.

With over 500,000 sq ft of space from Lamar to Rusk, our festival footprint remains the largest Pride Celebration in Texas and the 3rd largest in the U.S. The 2024 Celebration will see a revamped festival layout with many cooling tents, shaded walkways, free water (while supplies last), and gates managed by our new partnering event management company.

Parade is FREE as always for everyone to watch and enjoy.

Festival General Admission is FREE for ages 21 & under and seniors 55+.

VIP tickets can be purchased for $225.

How to watch the Houston LGBT+ Pride Parade

The Houston LGBT+ Pride Parade will be broadcast live on ABC13 Houston for those who cannot attend in person.

Details

The 46th Annual Official Houston LGBT+ Pride Celebration: Festival & Parade will take place downtown at Houston City Hall, 901 Bagby Street, on Saturday, June 29, 2024, in Houston, TX.

This is Houston's Premiere Event of the Pride Season attended by hundreds of thousands of festival goers each Summer.
The Official Houston Pride is the oldest and largest Celebration in Texas to date. The parade will kick off at 7:30 p.m. Houston’sNew Faces of Pride and Pride Houston 365 are the organizations hosting Pride festivities with plenty of activities and fun for the entire community and allies to look forward to.

HOUSTON’S NEW FACES OF PRIDE

June 22, 2024

With promises to “present Pride like never before” Houston’s New Faces of Pride is looking forward to their inaugural celebrations. Featuring indoor and outdoor activities, the celebration will take over Fish Plaza at Wortham Theater Center.

Ages 21-54 Festival General Admission will cost $1 for advance online tickets and $5 at the gate.

Website:

pridehouston365.org

Get ready for the hottest celebration of the year

This year, Pride Month is set to be more epic than ever before in Bayou City thanks to two separate celebrations in June.

The raid provoked six days of protests that have since been credited for shifting LGBTQ+ activism in the U.S.

Pride Houston 365, an LGBTQ+ organization based in Houston, credited for organizing the parade for nearly half a century, said the celebration will take place on June 29 in downtown Houston.

Here is what attendees will need to know ahead of the pride parade in Houston this year.

When is the Houston LGBT+ Pride Festival and Parade?

The Houston LGBT+ Pride Festival begins Saturday, June 29 at noon CT.

The parade pre-show will be at 6 p.m., while the actual parade will take place at 7:15 p.m.

The celebration, which Pride Houston 365 says averages more than 850,000 attendees per year, will be headlined by singers K. Michelle, David Archuleta, Brooke Eden and celebrity trainer and artist, Kayla G. Muffy Vanderbilt, who appeared on "RuPaul's Drag Race," will host the parade.

What is the Houston LGBT+ Pride Parade route?

The Houston LGBT+ Pride Parade will begin at Bagby Street and Lamar Street and continue up Smith Street to Walker Street, where it will make a right turn and run along Walker to Milam Street and continue down Milam to Pease Street.

General admission tickets for people between 21-54 for the festival portion of the celebration are available for $5.

It starts at 7:30pm.

Celebration: 11am-10pm

• Gates Open at 11:00am 
• Festival Hours: 12pm-6:00pm
• Parade Pre-Show: 6:00pm - 7:15pm
• Parade Hours: 7:20pm-10:00pm

Ticket Info

Festival General Admission is FREE for ages under 21 and seniors 55+. People under 21 and over 55 years of age can reserve general admission tickets for free.

Our current sponsors and partners can be found at: Sponsors and Partners.


This year, with over 500,000 sq ft of space from Lamar to Rusk, our festival footprint still remains the largest Pride Celebration in Texas and the 3rd largest in the U.S. The 2024 Celebration will see a revamped festival layout with many cooling tents, shaded walkways, free water (while supplies last), and our seniors are allowed to bring lawn chairs.

Parade is FREE as always for everyone to watch and enjoy.

on Bagby St. at outbound Allen Parkway, and stretch 15 blocks downtown for all to come out and enjoy once the sun begins to set.

PRIDE HOUSTON 365

June 29, 2024

This year marks the 46th annual parade and festival for Pride Houston 365. Embracing the theme of "You Won't Break Our Pride,” the organization is slated to host their festival and parade downtown, along with other events to enjoy, this June.

Check out our blog post for more details.

 

​See more images from previous years!

 

The 46th Annual Houston LGBT+ Pride Festival and Parade will potentially bring out hundreds of thousands on Saturday to celebrate Pride Month.

Pride Month is recognized every year in commemoration of the 1969 Stonewall Uprising in New York, which involved police raiding the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in Manhattan's Greenwich Village.

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