In defiance of Attorney General Ken Paxton, Austin ISD's Pride Week marches on
Paxton equated the week of LGBTQ-inclusive activities with sex education in a letter to the district. Austin ISD says its about acceptance.
by Eleanor Klibanoff, Texas Tribune
On Saturday morning, the courtyard at Eastside Early College High School in Austin looks like a rainbow threw up, according to Melissa Kender.
There are rainbow flags, rainbow pins, rainbow dresses and shirts and face paint. Kender, an assistant principal at Dobie Middle School, wears a T-shirt proclaiming Dobie Pride in rainbow letters.
Kender attended Saturdays Pride Out! event, the culmination of Austin Independent School Districts weeklong celebration of LGBTQ identities, with her wife, Caitlin.
Its just really important to us that kids know that we will protect them and celebrate them, no matter how they identify, Melissa Kender said.
Read more:
https://www.texastribune.org/2022/03/26/paxton-lgbtq-pride-austin-isd/