Grayson Pride

Are you ready for Pride Fest 2026?!?

We have live music from local and returning artists Mattheu Neal (known better as Matt Neal and previously known as the Chupacabro), Tori Smyers , and new to the Grayson County Pride stage, Ashley Monika!

See them and so much more at Grow Like Wildflowers; Grayson County Pride Fest this Saturday, June 13th!

Grayson County Pride has arrived at McKinney Pride Fest!! We’ll be here all day so be sure to stop by!!

We're packing the Kidd Key Stage next Saturday with so many wonderful performances!

Today we'd like you to meet the wonderful belly dance troupes we have in store for you! We have , McKinney Belly Dance, and Little Goddess Trybe!

Make sure you set aside time to see them and all the other fun thing things we have planned for Pride Fest 2026: Grow Like Wildflowers! We'll see you Saturday, June 13th, 10am to 4pm!

Pride Fest is almost a week away and we are so excited to see our community next Saturday, June 13th!

We've got a great line up for live performances and speakers this year! We're proud to be hosting 3 belly dance troupes , 3 local musicians, a Q&A for all you artists out there, and a returning Sherman local guest speaker!

The best part? Absolutely free! Come on over to the Sherman Municipal Ballroom on Saturday, June 13th from 10a-4p and watch our community bloom!

Join us at Pride Fest as we speak to local artists in a wide range of practices! From physical and digital media artists to actors, dancers, and drag performers we’ve covered as wide a range as we can all from the community we serve! Panelist details coming soon!

What questions do you have? Drop them down in the comments! We'll ask them next Saturday, June 13 at 11a!

There's a kind of work nobody photographs.
In her new letter for Letters from Rural Texoma, our Executive Chair Dr. JoAngeli Zertuche-Kasper writes about it honestly: the 8 AM Tuesday meetings at the Sherman Chamber of Commerce, the sponsor calls about liability and what "family-friendly" means for families like ours, the introductions to people who haven't yet decided whether they support us. The practiced calm of staying in the room when the easier thing would be to leave.
It's all in service of undoing one national story, that LGBTQ+ people are something to fear. The truth is closer to home than that. It's a child figuring out who they are. It's your neighbor who waves from her porch. It's your mother who hasn't been able to call her son. It's your friend, carrying something alone that you could help her hold.
That's who Pride Festival is for. That's who it's in defense of.
Every chair, every flag, every booth on June 13 is there because someone made a call, wrote an email, or sat at a table full of strangers and stayed long enough to be heard. You won't see any of that on the day. You'll just see the room.
Come see what we've built. June 13, downtown Sherman, 10 AM to 4 PM. 🌼
Read the full letter 👉 https://graysoncountypride.substack.com/p/what-it-takes-to-build-the-room-pride

Meet our guest speaker and legacy donor, David Perkins!

David Perkins is a 1972 graduate of Sherman High School who from the age of 9 wanted to go to New York City to be in Broadway Musicals! When he was 30 he achieved his dream of moving to New York! Since then he has been active in LGBTQ+ causes including being on the Boston Le***an and Gay Speakers Bureau, being a Co chair of Men of all Colors Together in New York City and being an enthusiastic supporter of Grayson Pride. He is currently a psychotherapist in private practice in New York City. He is thrilled to be returning to Sherman to celebrate with Grayson Pride this weekend.

Be sure to catch David Perkins at 12:10pm on Saturday, June 13th along all the other wonderful things going on at Pride Fest this year!

And the title for our upcoming Drag Show is Poisoned Meadows: Thorns & Roses! Thank you to everyone who took a guess at the title last week!

🌹☠️ Leather. Lace. Lip syncs. Legends. ☠️🌹
Step into the wild and wicked world of Poisoned Meadows: Thorns N’ Roses - a 18+, high-voltage drag spectacular where glam rock rebellion meets hair metal excess. From teased hair and fishnets to electric guitars and smoky ballads, this show is serving unapologetic attitude, larger-than-life performances, and enough glitter to rival the Sunset Strip.

Get ready for a night of powerhouse drag, iconic rock anthems, and dangerously seductive energy as our cast transforms the stage into a neon garden of chaos and beauty. Whether you’re here for the headbanging hits, the dramatic ballads, or the fierce fashion, this is one show that will leave you screaming for an encore.

💋 Dress loud.
🎸 Sing louder.
🌹 Beware the thorns.

Get your tickets now: https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/poisoned-meadows-thorns-and-roses

Pride Month begins, and so does another room we build for each other.

Tonight is Grayson Glow Up at The White Rabbit Coffee House, 6:30 PM, our monthly meetup for ages 18 to 25. First Monday of every month. Always there. Always for you.

Pride Festival is twelve days away. June 13, 10 AM to 4 PM, downtown Sherman. We will see you there.

For the next thirty days, this is where we are: in our rooms, with each other, in the open.

Tag a friend who needs to know there is a room here for them.

The Board of Grayson County Pride