Performers, sponsors and entrants built floats and pulled them across Fair Park while showering attendees with swag and beads — all rainbow-colored, of course. The usual sponsors — banks like Comerica and the bars that cover the Cedar Springs Strip — all beamed down the path as employees and supporters dressed in their best Pride garb to put on a show for the crowd.
The absence of quite a few DFW sponsors we’ve seen in past years, like Lockheed Martin and Boeing, seemed to indicate a shift in the political environment with the new Trump administration. Although many Pride supporters might say that weapons manufacturers and corporate sponsors water down the message, anyway — an obligatory reminder that Pride began as a riot.
Regardless, those who did show up to put on a good time for attendees were loud and proud, and those among the crowd that lined the parade were done up to the nines in Pride gear. We wouldn't expect anything less.
Here are some of our favorite looks and moments from this year's Dallas Pride Parade.
They should give Miss Gay USofA Classic another award for serving in a full face of makeup without a drop of sweat in the Texas heat.
Charles Farmer
