The Oakland Pride Parade and party just declared itself finished, but a new leadership organization immediately sprang up in its place, and the long and the short of it is that Oakland Pride will now be Sunday, August 16.
You know that San Francisco always holds its giant SF Pride Weekend festivities at the end of the Pride Month of June, but you may have noticed that other Bay Area municipalities do their own Pride Weekends at different points in the summer. Down in San Jose, for instance, Silicon Valley Pride is generally at the end of August. And over in the East Bay, Oakland Pride has traditionally been the weekend of the Labor Day holiday.
But the Bay Area Reporter has the news that Oakland Pride is moving its date to mid-August, specifically Sunday, August 16, 2026 for this year. This is all part of a larger Oakland Pride leadership replacement, and looking at the public statement from the new Oakland Pride leadership team, boy does it sound like something crazy went down behind the scenes…