The Austin district has celebrated Pride Week for at least 14 years, with 2022 activities to be determined campus by campus along broad themes, such as "Differences are awesome" for Tuesday and "Know your rights" on Wednesday. Grumet: Texas families with transgender kids are 'refugees in their own country' The Pride Week clash underlines increasingly sharp divisions over issues of sexual identity - a battle that has spilled into the courts over Paxton's opinion that gender-affirming medical care for transgender adolescents constitutes child abuse and into school libraries, where conservatives are pushing to eliminate books that they believe contain obscene sexual content, many of them with LGBTQ themes.
Organizers will provide festival and parade updates through social media on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.A social media-fueled backlash to this year's Pride Week also resulted in death threats against Doss Elementary School teachers and prompted the school to move Wednesday's pride parade indoors, with police present, "because we were actually worried that this political controversy could possibly threaten the safety of these kids," district spokesman Jason Stanford said. Organizers encourage Aggies to take part in the parade by joining the group at staging time between 4-6 p.m. The GLBT Resource Center will cap off the Pride Houston weekend by participating in the Houston Pride Parade, which kicks off at 8 p.m.
Organizers recommend using Entrance 2 to find the booth at the intersection of Walker and Smith streets. On Saturday, June 22, the GLBT Resource Center, the Aggie Pride: LGBTQ & Ally Former Students Network, Aggie Allies, Transcend, and LGBTQ Aggies will co-host a Houston Pride Festival Booth from 12 p.m.-7 p.m. Additional details and event updates are available on Facebook. at the Guava Lamp (570 Waugh Dr., Houston) alongside Texas Exes Pride Alumni Network, University of Houston LGBTQ Alumni Association, and Rice Alumni Pride: Rice University LGBTQIA* Alumni & Allies. The Aggie Pride: LGBTQ & Ally Former Student Network will host the Intercollegiate Pride Mixer Friday, June 21 at 6 p.m. It embodies the spirit of the Aggie Family and Aggie Core Values, as people demonstrate love and respect for one another.” Pride is a celebration of, and nod to, the history of the LGBTQ+ community. “It is a world of people who are often rejected or discriminated against for being who they are. “Similar to the Aggie Family, the LGBTQ+ community is bigger than one person or one group,” GLBT Resource Center Program Aide Olivia Corneau said. The Texas A&M University Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender (GLBT) Resource Center will take part in Pride Houston activities for the fourth consecutive year June 21-22, organizers announced.