✦ PRIDE 2026 · THANK YOU
To every group that marched, rode and danced down Shoreline, and everyone who lined the route to cheer them on: thank you. You made it Pride. 💜
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Photos: Debbie Noble
The 10th Pride Corpus Christi Parade stepped off on Saturday, October 10, 2026, along Shoreline Blvd. by Water’s Edge Park. Floats, banners, marching groups and music, and a crowd along the route cheering every one of them past.
Thank you to Brittany Andrews and Ellison Powers for leading the way as our Grand Marshals, to Johnny Hotcakes & Kitana Sanchez for calling the parade as it passed, and to Hicks Family Subaru, whose support put it on the street.
Most of all, thank you to every group that marched, and to everyone who came out to watch. Pride is the people in it, and you showed up for each other.
How honorees are chosen, and every Grand Marshal before them
October - LGBT History Month
Pride Corpus Christi began as a response. On June 12, 2016, forty-nine people were killed at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando. CCLGBT organized a candlelight vigil here in response, and it was that gathering that sparked the re-emergence of Pride in Corpus Christi. The first Pride Corpus Christi was held downtown the following year, and there has been a parade every year since.
The march is older than we are. On June 28, 1969, patrons of the Stonewall Inn in New York fought back against a police raid; the first Pride marches followed a year later. Every parade since has been both a celebration and a demonstration, and ours is no different.
We keep our own history too. Our Community Lives is the archive where it lives — recorded in the words of the people who were here for it.
The parade falls in October, which is LGBT History Month in the United States. Marching down Shoreline in daylight is itself part of the record — and every year of it is something the archive will hold.
Photography by Philip J Perez · The 2016 candlelight vigil, organized by CCLGBT
They are not announcers so much as the reason the route stops moving. Groups pull up in front of them and give it everything — a full routine, a song, a chant — and the shout-out comes straight back out to the crowd.
Every entry in this year’s parade, in marching order. Thank you, every one of you. Tap through to find them and say thanks.
Thank you to the performers who took the stage, including…
Naomi Evans
Porcelain
Leona Lane
Ophelia Tits Paris
Kitana Sánchez
Killjoy
Zara Doll
Primadonna Brooks
Gemini B. York
And 24 more performers.
Pride 2026 was free to watch and free to attend because these businesses and organizations stood with us. Thank you.
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