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Austin Pride brought crowds on Saturday as attendees navigated rising event costs, extreme heat and the removal of a rainbow crosswalk in downtown.<\/p>\n

AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Austin Pride moved through the city on Saturday, even as this year’s celebration<\/a> comes with some extra hurdles.<\/a><\/p>\n

Downtown Austin’s\u00a0rainbow crosswalk\u00a0<\/a>at Fourth and Colorado streets was removed earlier this year, and Jamal Crier, the outreach director for the Austin Pride Foundation, said the event’s operational costs have increased over the years.\u00a0<\/p>\n


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“This year we had to cut things down,” Crier said. “And really hone in on the community.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Then came another challenge on Saturday: the Texas heat.<\/p>\n

High temperatures followed attendees throughout the day\u2019s festivities, with people carrying water, using fans and finding shade where they could.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, crowds still showed up to celebrate.<\/p>\n

“To see a celebration like today happen, where people can come out and be proud and joyous and celebrate, it’s a very overwhelming feeling of happiness and joy,” Crier said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Several attendees said their mission is to keep moving forward.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“I try to stay informed, active and vote,” attendee Chris Claro said. “Hope for the better.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

There were multiple live performances, vendors and community resources. Attendees said they’re filling the streets with color, even when some of it has disappeared from the pavement.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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“It’s just super important to me to remain colorful,” attendee Lars Landers said. “And remind other queer people that it’s okay to be yourself and stand out.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Another attendee said Saturday’s event was a chance to gather as a community despite the financial pressures, changing landscape and summer heat surrounding this year\u2019s Pride.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Austin Pride brought crowds on Saturday as attendees navigated rising event costs, extreme heat and the removal of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-415095","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\/415095","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=415095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}