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<\/p>\nOrganizers credited community support with helping them bring back the festival for its 36th year.<\/p>\n
AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Thousands of Austinites turned out Saturday for the Austin Pride Festival, despite triple-digit temperatures.<\/p>\n
The festival returned to Fiesta Gardens in East Austin for its 36th year. The event, organized by the nonprofit Austin Pride Foundation, featured new vendors, new entertainers and activities.<\/p>\n
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With temperatures soaring, organizers and attendees took steps to beat the heat.<\/p>\n
Austin Pride Outreach Director Jamal Crier said the festival offered water, electrolytes and shaded areas to help people stay safe and comfortable.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe still have water monsters here available for everybody,\u201d Crier said. He added that vendors were providing Liquid I.V. and extra electrolytes, while the stage area was shaded.<\/p>\n
Austin Travis-County EMS also had units stationed outside the festival grounds.<\/p>\n
The vendor inKind was also handing out 600 servings of ice cream donated by Austin-based Lick Honest Ice Creams.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve been getting a lot of people, like, \u2018I heard y\u2019all have ice cream,\u2019\u201d said Adam Hinojosa with inKind.<\/p>\n
He added, smiling, \u201cAnd we\u2019re like, \u2018Yes we do!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Abigail Stern, also with inKind, said, \u201cAugust is kind of a difficult month to do Pride in, but I think everybody\u2019s happy to be here and be a part of the community.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nAustin Pride celebrates community support <\/p>\n
Austin Pride Foundation leaders also thanked the community for helping make this year’s events possible amid rising costs and the political climate.<\/p>\n
Crier said the organization hosted more than 11 events across 10 days at locations throughout Austin.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re going all around Austin to show that Austin Pride exists in multiple different corners of the Austin community,\u201d Crier said.<\/p>\n
Crier said the Austin Pride Festival will end at 6 p.m. The Pride Parade is scheduled to begin at 8 p.m. Saturday along Congress Avenue downtown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Organizers credited community support with helping them bring back the festival for its 36th year. AUSTIN, Texas \u2014…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-414591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}