WHEN IS THE GAY PRIDE PARADE IN HOUSTON 2013 FULL
The lights and crowd explode once the parade makes its way to the VIP areas, with bleachers full of screaming Pride revelers lunging to catch glimpses, condoms, and beads. The entire route along Westheimer comes alive with peeps five to 10 deep lining the streets the whole way down. The Houston festival is the lead in to the nighttime parade and is, as you'd expect, larger than Austin's in participants but totally eclipsing ours in audience by a few hundred thousand. We don't know if it was the two-story beer bong, the coolers full of homemade Jell-O shots, or the generous displays of flesh and personality that made for such a friendly, flirtatious fest, but whatever it was, Austin could use a dose or two. The festival itself is the de facto cornerstone for the spontaneous and unrestricted queers-gone-wild street festival that rages all across the 'hood. Houston's Pride – though not perfect and certainly not to be compared to massive whole-city affairs like SF or NYC (it's still Texas, after all, y'all) – is at least focused.
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Unsatisfying, and if there is a headache to be earned, it's a dull throb. Sorry, but this whole across-the-whole-month-of-June deal for Austin Pride has the effect of watering down a damn good 40-ounce Margarita – then nursing it for the whole night. Oh, and that they have the sense to put all the festivities on one weekend. The difference between Bayou Town Pride and Austin's own, is that they have a central gayborhood – Montrose. (To read more, click below to see more pix, click above the image.) As the vibe (and other lubricants and libations) began to flow, we all decided to hang together and combine strengths for the duration of the ridiculously epic jaunt. Your intrepid friendly neighborhood Gay Place hosted a few pals and prize winners at the Hyatt Downtown, our room two doors down from frisky winners, Dacia Saenz and Julie Pennington. Theme song? UNK's "Walk It Out." Oh yeah. You know that part of freaking, when the person in the back steadies themselves by either outstretching their arms to rest against the freak's clavicle or grabs ass so as not to fall over? Yeah, well, that basically summed up the whole trip to H-Town last weekend. Welcome to Gay Spring Break or, as it is better known, Pride Houston. Snoop Dawg look-alike dykes tailin' Tri-Delts on the back of pickup trucks for Jell-O shots. Pretty, caramel muscle boys in crop tops and rainbow banana thongs.