When Fort Worth Mayor Mattie Parker recognized “Pride Month,” officials stood with LGBT activists promoting the “No Kings Day” protests against President Donald Trump this weekend.
Parker, a Republican, declared that “Y’all means All” June 10. During the signing, officials posed for a photo-op taken by the Fort Worth Report with LGBT activists, including some with Trinity Pride.
Trinity Pride’s calendar advertises various events from drag shows, to Dallas Pride, to “Queer Craft Night.” But it also promoted the upcoming, anti-Trump “No Kings” protest, part of a national mobilization sponsored by left-wing activists.
Trinity Pride’s calendar advertised the “No Kings” protest in Fort Worth at noon on June 14, at Burk Burnett Park. The group called it a “massive PEACEFUL rally built for ALL members of our community.” The group called attendees to bring their family, friends, and neighbors.
“This is big. This is bold,” the Trinity Pride description read. “This is how we rise together and join forces to ensure equal representation and opportunity across the board. NO MORE KINGS!”
After The Dallas Express emailed Trinity Pride asking for comment, the calendar listing disappeared from the group’s website. Trinity Pride did not comment, or explain why it removed the posting, in time for publication.
The Dallas Express took screenshots the morning of June 11, while the protest listing was still up.
Screenshot | Logan Washburn, DX
When reached for comment, Mayor Parker told the The Dallas Express, “The resolution was not about Trinity Pride or any organization. It was about recognizing the people of our community.”
The resolution, obtained by The Dallas Express, recognizes “Pride Month” but does not mention any specific organizations.
A “Pride Month” proclamation failed in the city council last year. In June 2024, Parker posed with Trinity Pride’s leaders for a photo, when officials issued the group a “Certificate of Recognition” for Pride Month.
The Fort Worth “No Kings” event is “organizing resistance” to Trump, according to its description on the left-wing organizing platform Mobilize America. “We don’t bow to wannabe kings!”
“NO KINGS. NO CROWNS. NO DAMN THRONES. FORT WORTH HAS HAD ENOUGH!” the description reads. “This country doesn’t belong to Trump or his billionaire buddies—it belongs to the people. Fort Worth and Tarrant County…it’s time to stand up!”
Organizers apparently referenced Trump’s military parade in Washington D.C. for Flag Day and the Army’s 250th anniversary, claiming the president “plots parades and power grabs.”
“Fort Worth will be loud enough that he’ll hear us from wherever he’s hiding,” the description reads.
Parker told The Dallas Express she has “full faith” in the Fort Worth Police Department to manage the “No Kings” demonstration.
The Indivisible Project, a powerful anti-Trump network, is working with other left-wing groups to sponsor these “No Kings” protests across the nation June 14. One of its local chapters, Fort Worth Area Indivisible, is backing this specific event.
“We’re not here to play nice with authoritarianism,” reads FWA Indivisible’s website. “We’re organizing to fight back against racist redistricting, Trump’s Project 2025, and every rigged system meant to silence our communities.”
Tarrant County Republican Chair Bo French warned residents about the protest, put on by “radical violent Marxists.”
https://x.com/BoFrenchTX/status/1932635864149999661
The Dallas Express also reached out to ‘No Kings’ and FWA Indivisible, but they did not comment in time for publication.
Indivisible has assisted similar protest movements like Hands Off with things like “infrastructure to get the campaign off the ground” in the past, according to The Federalist.
Indivisible and other activist groups are coordinating the national protests – as well as several in the DFW area – through Mobilize. As The Federalist previously reported, Mobilize falls under Bonterra – which was launched by the London-based private firm Apax Partners, and which also oversees the Democrat Party’s comprehensive voter database NGP VAN.
The upcoming protests fall in the wake of violent anti-ICE riots in Los Angeles and Dallas, as The Dallas Express previously reported. Gov. Greg Abbott announced June 10 he would deploy the national guard across Texas to quell unrest.