Showing JPride Together
The Jewish LGBTQ+ Community Thrives in a Growing Coalition
In 2024, a new kind of collaboration began to take shape in Dallas-Fort Worth—one rooted in a shared belief that Jewish and LGBTQ+ identity should not only be affirmed within individual communities but celebrated together across them.
That vision became JPride, a growing coalition of congregations and organizations working to build visibility, belonging and connection for LGBTQ+ Jews and their allies throughout the region. Today, JPride brings together Temple Emanu-El Dallas, Congregation Beth Torah, JBorhood, Stand With Us, Makom Shelanu Congregation and Keshet, a national organization dedicated to advancing LGBTQ+ equality in Jewish life.
What began with a shared presence at Dallas Pride has grown into a yearround network of programming and partnerships. JPride has expanded into social gatherings and community events that foster connection in more informal settings alongside its public-facing visibility work, like the “Chalk Your Walkways” campaign that brought messages of affirmation and visibility into public spaces across Texas and Florida.
Along the way, JPride has become less about any single event and more about what it means to show up together across different institutions and lived experiences.
“There is deep power in Jewish communities across Dallas coming together in visible, unified support,” says Shira Stevenson, Director of Small Groups and Diversity at Temple Emanu-El. “It sends a message of safety, welcome and affirmation across Jewish Dallas.”
As JPride continues to grow, it moves between celebration and education, visibility and action, shaping new ways for Jewish institutions to show up for one another and for the communities they serve.
Celebrate Pride Month
Pride Shabbat
Friday, June 12 | 6:15 p.m. | Stern Chapel and Online
Wear your rainbows and pride swag as we welcome the Sabbath and celebrate Temple’s inclusivity at Pride Shabbat! The service will feature voices of Temple’s LGBTQ+ community and the evening will include festive onegs before and after the service.
J-Pride Pool Party
Sunday, June 28 | 2 p.m. | Aaron Family JCC
Join J-Pride for a midsummer pool party at the JCC to celebrate Pride Month with the broader LGBTQ+ Jewish Dallas community. Everyone is welcome. Register here.
Originally published in the May/June 2026 edition of The Window