All are welcome to attend Black Prides.īlack Prides are planned and managed by the organizations dedicated to: building solidarity health and wellness promoting unity and ensuring the development of education, economic empowerment, and individual and collective work, responsibility and self-determination. Pride Houston facilitates the Houston gay Pride festival and parade that commemorates the 1969 stonewall riots in new york city. West suburban Naperville will be celebrating its LGBTQ community this summer when it hosts its 2nd annual Naper Pride Fest with plenty of fun for all ages. The parade, festival and most of the festivities will take place in the coming months, so make sure you check back here for all of the details. This year, Pride Houston celebrates 42 years with events that you won't want to miss. Attending events and seeing people who look like oneself with many of the same shared experiences, contributes to building stronger, healthier LGBT communities and is an effective way to combat homophobia and stigma in the Black community and racism in the greater LGBT community along with overcoming the cultural, communal and institutional barriers created by isms and phobias. Hundreds of thousands of spectators will attend the 2020 Houston LGBT Pride Celebration this Fall. Rather than encouraging separation, Black Prides encourage awareness of self and community, respect, dignity and many attendees of Black Pride events have returned to their homes to come out to friends, family and their communities. Black Pride is the gateway to the greater LGBT community experience for many Black LGBTQ+ people.