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Dallas officials raise Pride flag at City Hall; parade grand marshals named
Summary
City officials and community leaders raised the Pride flag at Dallas City Hall, read a 2021 proclamation directing the city to fly the flag each June, and Pride in Dallas named Councilmember Omar Narvaez and performer Kennedy Davenport as grand marshals of the Sept. 21, 2025 parade.
Dallas City Hall hosted a Pride flag-raising ceremony that combined a land acknowledgment, civic remarks and event announcements, culminating in plans for a Cedar Springs parade this fall.
Councilmember Omar Narvaez (District 6) opened by thanking the speaker who read a land acknowledgment and by reflecting on his eight years on the council. "We've won our rights. We're not all the way there yet, and we're not going back," Narvaez said, framing Pride as both protest and celebration amid national and state-level pressures he described as threats to LGBTQ+ rights.
Tina Schultz, assistant chief of the Dallas Police Department, acknowledged past shortcomings in policing toward LGBTQ+ residents and said…
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