Overview
- Heavy rain forced organizers to cancel the 48th annual Houston Pride Parade just hours before its planned June 6 kickoff, though the pre-parade festival still took place downtown.
- Pride Houston 365 announced late June that the parade will be held on Aug. 15 and thanked the Mayor’s Office of Special Events for helping secure the date.
- Organizers have not released a start time or route for the Aug. 15 parade and said more logistical details will follow.
- This year’s schedule was shifted from its usual late-June slot because city permitting was constrained by Houston hosting FIFA World Cup matches, which limited available dates.
- Houston Pride typically draws tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of people, so the rescheduling matters for attendees, vendors and city planners who will now monitor announced route, crowd and safety plans for the August event.