Harrison Guy

Harrison Guy (born La Marque, Texas) is a dancer, choreographer, and activist who founded the Urban Souls Dance Company. In 2019, Guy became the first Black male grand marshal of the Pride Houston parade.

Biography At age eight, Guy began learning tap dance before going on to study various dance styles. He graduated from La Marque High School, where he was the first homecoming king, and attended Prairie View A&M University. After returning to Houston in 2001, he offered free classes for dance students at a theatre and dance performance space known as The Barn.

Guy met his husband Adrian Homer in 2007 during a fraternity community service activity. They married in 2017 at the University of Houston.

Activism Guy began his activism career in 2015 with the Donald R. Watkins Memorial Foundation, an HIV prevention agency. He was the LGBTQ community coordinator for the Houston NAACP, and both national vice president and southern regional director of Delta Phi Upsilon fraternity. Guy was on the LGBT Advisory Board for the Democratic National Committee and the diversity committee for Pride Houston, which organizes the annual Pride parade. The archive, launched on February 21, 2019, was named after Dr. Walter Charles Law, a former archivist at Texas Southern University. Dr. Law also founded The Houston Committee, a professional organization for Black gay men which was active during the 1970s and 1980s.