Pride has usually been a safe place to celebrate the start of the LGBTQ civil rights movement. But recent hot-button events and continued attacks on those rights have many Texan LGBTQ advocacy groups reexamining their safety plans for the celebration.
Pride flags, stickers, masks, pronoun buttons and other merch were handed out at the Austin school district’s “Pride Out!” event in March. Organizers of Pride events in Texas this month are trying to weigh a wish to celebrate their civil rights movement with fears for safety after extremists were arrested at a Pride event in Idaho this month., our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news.
“It’s still scary just for them to be part of the trans community and put them in a larger LGBTQ community,” Giles, president of the LGBTQ advocacy group PFLAG Houston, said about her kids. “We just keep hearing of these far-right extremists that continue to attack and demonize the LGBTQIA community,” Daniel Pacheco, co-chair of Stonewall Democrats of San Antonio, told The Texas Tribune. “It’s definitely concerning to us.”were arrested Saturday in Idaho on misdemeanor conspiracy to riot charges after the Coeur d’Alene police department responded to a call about “a little army” of people with masks and shields getting into a U-Haul van near a Pride event.
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