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.

“When I took over as president of the pride board, there were major issues that I had to handle including problems with the Department of Justice (DOJ), vendors who had not been paid for years, and poor financial record keeping. It was a mess,” Oakland Pride board president George Smith III said in a statement posted this past Thursday. “Although we were able to resolve those issues, years of improper use of credit cards badly damaged Oakland Pride's ability to access any lines of credit, making it difficult to produce Pride."

Obviously there is some juicy gossip with whatever all happened there! Regardless, Oakland Pride will now be managed and operated by the Oakland LGBTQ Community Center, and no longer by the previous Oakland Pride board.

And the new Oakland Pride may be, well, a work in progress. Notably, its website is no longer functioning as of the Tuesday morning press time of this article. So it appears there are some kinks being worked out here.

But either way, Oakland Pride now appears to be reborn healthier, and that’s probably a great thing.

So your new summer 2026 Pride schedule would be SF Pride from June 27–28, Silicon Valley Pride from August 29-30, Berkeley Pride on August 30, and as mentioned, Oakland Pride on August 16 (currently no functioning website).  

Related: Oakland Pride Draws an Estimated 50,000 People to Downtown Oakland Parade and Celebration [SFist]

Image: Oakland Pride via Facebook