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Volume 61 l Number 77
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The Voice of Seguin
Pride Fest organizers defend Seguin event amid online backlash
WEEKEND EDITION
TODAY
Darren Dunn
(Seguin) -- Organizers of a Pride Fest planned for Seguin this fall say their goal is to bring love and unity to the community. The Riverside Pride Fest is scheduled for October 31 at the Seguin Coliseum, and organizers are responding to criticism from some community members who have spoken out against the event online. Pride Fest Board Member Hunter Bledsoe says pride events are about bringing people together. He says that’s exactly what they hope to do in Seguin. “Pride Fests are times where people from the LGBTQ community and their allies can come together and just enjoy being who we are. You know, there’s a lot of hate in the world and we just like to have, you know, one day out of the year to just have fun, be ourselves and enjoy being the people that God made us to be,” said Bledsoe. Bledsoe says Pride Fest will be a free public event, with the early portion of the day designed for a broader audience.
“So, it’ll start at 10 o’clock in the morning and the main part of it goes to 1:45 p.m. We’re going to have booths and vendors. There’ll be food and we’ll have some live music. There’ll be face painting and just the kind of things you would expect to find at a festival,” said Bledsoe. Because of Texas Senate Bill 12, organizers say minors will not be allowed during the later portion of the event due to state restrictions involving drag performances. “Texas has passed a law that drag shows can’t have anybody under 18 in attendance. So, at 1:45, we’ll shut the event down. And then at 2:15 p.m., after we’ve cleared everybody out, we’ll open the event back up for 18 and over only. So, we’ll be checking IDs at the door and there will only be adults inside. And that’s when we’ll have our drag show,” said Bledsoe. Bledsoe says drag is often misunderstood, but organizers intend to fully comply with all state laws and regulations. Pride, pg. 3
Seguin High School announces top students to lead Class of 2026 Cindy Aguirre-Herrera
(Seguin) -- For the past four years, Madison Morales and Cheng Chen have pushed each other to the top of their class at Seguin High School.
Morales, the Class of 2026 salutatorian, and Chen, this year’s valedictorian, have held the number two and number one spots, Students, pg. 2