Pride Houston 365, which is hosting its annual parade and festival on Saturday, lost about 20 sponsors this year that accounted for more than $180,000 in funding. The reason? Companies didn't want to be associated with DEI.

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Pride Houston lost more than $180K in sponsorships because of concerns about DEI

Representatives of Pride Houston 365, which is hosting its annual downtown parade and festival this Saturday, say they lost about 20 sponsors this year. Some of the continuing sponsors requested they no longer be publicized as supporters.

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Pride Month started this week, which means there are plenty of upcoming events and celebrations for the Houston area's LGBTQ+ community and its allies.

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Houston Pride Month 2025: Events planned throughout June

The month's festivities culminate June 28 with the 47th annual Pride Houston Festival & Parade, hosted downtown by Pride Houston 365.

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A year after dueling Pride parades were held by competing organizations on back-to-back weekends, Houston will have one downtown celebration for its LGBTQ+ residents and their allies. The newer organization appears to have gone dormant.

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Houston returns to one Pride parade in 2025 after competing events last year

Pride Houston 365, which has been putting on a parade for nearly 50 years, has its annual festival and parade scheduled for June 28. Houston’s New Faces of Pride, a competing nonprofit founded in 2023, organized a parade last summer but will not be doing so this year.

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First set of Houston’s two Pride festivals and parades this year to be held Saturday

Houston's New Faces of Pride is holding its inaugural festival and parade this weekend. Next weekend, a similar festival and parade will be hosted by Pride Houston.

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There are lots of ways to commemorate Pride month in Houston, including fitness activities, parties, markets, brunches, parades, festivals and Pride nights at local professional sporting events. Here's a rundown.

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Houston Pride Month 2024: Series of celebrations planned throughout June

There are lots of ways to commemorate Pride month in Houston, including fitness activities, parties, markets, brunches, parades, festivals and Pride nights at local professional sporting events.

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Houston is set to have two Pride parades this year. City Council is encouraging them to come together. 

Pride Houston 365 says it felt blindsided by the emergence of Houston’s New Faces of Pride and its Pride parade, which is scheduled just a week before Pride Houston’s. 

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Pride Houston's former president and executive director, Lorin Roberts, has been ordered to pay the nonprofit $1.2 million in damages related to claims of fraud and embezzlement.

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Pride Houston’s former president ordered to pay $1.2 million over fraud, embezzlement claims

The local nonprofit that organizes events in celebration of Houston's LGBTQ+ community is considering dismissing additional claims against Lorin "Lo" Roberts, who worked for Pride Houston from 2017-21.

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New Pride organization in Houston tweaks name in response to trademark infringement lawsuit

Pride Houston 365 and Houston’s New Faces of Pride have “resolved their dispute,” according to federal court records, but tensions remain between the two nonprofits that have scheduled competing parades and festivals for next summer. The newer organization has a kickoff event planned for Thursday night.

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New Pride organization in Houston tweaks name in response to trademark infringement lawsuit

Pride Houston 365 and Houston's New Faces of Pride have "resolved their dispute," according to federal court records, but tensions remain between the two nonprofits that have scheduled competing parades and festivals for next summer. The newer organization has a kickoff event planned for Thursday night.

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Pride Houston sues New Faces of Pride Houston in federal court, alleging trademark infringement

The competing nonprofit organizations, one of which was created earlier this year, both have scheduled parades and festivals for next June to celebrate Houston’s LGBTQ+ community.

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Pride Houston sues New Faces of Pride Houston in federal court, alleging trademark infringement

The competing nonprofit organizations, one of which was created earlier this year, both have scheduled parades and festivals for next June to celebrate Houston's LGBTQ+ community.

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Houston’s feuding Pride organizations planning two separate events for June 2024

Tensions already are bubbling between Pride Houston 365, the longtime organizer of Houston’s annual Pride parade and festival, and a new organization called New Faces of Pride Houston that is planning its own events next year.

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Houston’s feuding Pride organizations planning two separate events for June 2024

Tensions already are bubbling between Pride Houston 365, the longtime organizer of Houston's annual Pride parade and festival, and a new organization called New Faces of Pride Houston that is planning its own events next year.

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