Families with Pride Honors Houston’s LGBTQ+ Community Sans Summer Heat
This joint effort by the Greater Houston LGBTQ+ Chamber of Commerce, Council Member Abbie Kamin, and Discovery Green centers the needs of queer parents and their children (yes, including fur babies).
Families with Pride shows us that a loving, healthy, and supportive family can look so many different ways.
IMAGE: COURTESY OF FAMILIES WITH PRIDE
ONE OF THE BIGGEST COMPLAINTS regarding Houston’s Pride Month festivities in June is that, well, it’s in Houston—in June. Even the most avid sunbathers would find the Gulf Coast in the middle of summer a challenge. Not everyone wants to—or, depending on their physiology, can—celebrate the LGBTQ+ community with White Claw–fueled dehydration and a chronic case of swamp ass. Luckily, Families with Pride has timed its annual event to coincide with LGBTQ History Month in October instead, offering a more inclusive environment for many people who feel locked out of Pride due to the weather. This year’s festivities will be held at Discovery Green on Saturday, October 18, allowing participants to enjoy humane temperatures.
But Families with Pride didn’t initially launch in October, or even at Discovery Green. Now in its fourth year, the free event, which first ran concurrently with Pride Month in June, was held at Levy Park until last year. Shifting to a less punishing season brought in more attendees, necessitating a move to a bigger venue. It’s a bright spot of positivity at a time when the LGBTQ+ community has once again become scapegoats and targets at the legislative level.
“Visibility is everything right now. Connection to community is everything right now,” says Tammi Wallace, cofounder, president, and CEO of the Greater Houston LGBTQ+ Chamber of Commerce, which presents Families with Pride alongside Council Member Abbie Kamin and Discovery Green. “We find that with all of our events at the Chamber. We do about 140 events in a given year, and we have seen since the election how critically important it is to connect community.”
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