To help you celebrate Pride with your friends, family, and loved ones, Progress Texas has compiled a list of Pride events throughout June taking place across Texas. Join the University of Houston LGBTQ Resource Center for the 44th. This Pride month, lets celebrate the hard work of LGBTQ+ Texans who have been fighting against bigoted legislation. Brooke Army Medical Center held an Educate the Force Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month observance June 29 at the Fort Sam Houston Theater. Texas Republicans have sought to ban transgender children from playing sports, criminalize essential gender-affirming healthcare, ban books featuring LGBTQ+ characters and storylines, and further limit the already flawed Texas educational curriculum on sex and gender identity. This past year LGBTQ+ Texans, especially trans youth, have been under attack. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, and channel their defiance into the present. Pride month is a time to look to the past-to draw pride and inspiration from revolutionary LGBTQ+ ancestors, like Marsha P. It also follows a threat of gun violence on Twitter. The move comes less than two weeks after the Orlando Islamic terrorist attack at a gay nightclub another gun-free zone. In 1977, Houstons gay and lesbian community rallied together to protest Anita Bryant, a popular singer who took an anti-homosexuality stand and was against. A landmark moment in the gay liberation movement, the Stonewall uprisings are commemorated each year in June during Pride Month. HOUSTON, Texas Organizers for the Houston LGBT Pride celebration have declared the parade route and other pride events to be gun-free zones. The Leading Voice for the Greater Houston LGBTQ+ and. so support the LGBTQ+ Tech Leaders Mission to Texas and California. LGBTQ Resource Center 4465 University Dr. The LGBTQ+ patrons of Stonewall and other lesbian and gay bars in the area rioted for over six days when the police became violent. Kick off Pride Month with the First Friday Meet & Eat with one of the newest Chamber members. Join the University of Houston LGBTQ Resource Center for the 44th Annual Pride Houston 365 Parade Jul 13 2:00 pm. On June 28, 1969, the New York Police Department raided a Greenwich Village bar called the Stonewall Inn.