Houston’s official Pride Parade has been rescheduled for August after it was rained out earlier this month and then further delayed by events surrounding the FIFA World Cup.
Houston Pride 365, an LGBT non-profit organization that has long hosted the city’s official Pride Parade, announced on social media the event would be held Aug. 15.
“Let’s make August 15 iconic — The Parade is officially happening, and we’re coming louder than ever,” Pride Houston 365 said.
The 48th annual Houston Pride Parade was scheduled for June 6, the first weekend of LGBTQ+ Pride Month. Heavy rain forced organizers to cancel the event just hours before it was set to kick off, even though the pre-parade festival in downtown Houston still went on.
This is the first year Pride events were cancelled due to weather, but both the parade and festival were canceled in 2020 and 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The announcement of the new date comes on the last weekend of June, which historically has been when both the parade and festival take place. Pride Houston 365 had said that the FIFA World Cup caused citywide permitting restraints that forced it to move away from its usual date in the first place.
Hundreds of thousands of people come to Space City every year for the event, considered by many to be the largest in the South.
Organizers thanked the Mayor’s Office of Special Events for helping secure the new date.
“Rain changed the date,” Pride Houston 365 said. “It did not change our commitment to showing up for our community.”