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Austin ISD provides information and activities coinciding with National LGBT Health Awareness Week, concluding with the PRIDE OUT! Party in the Park at Eastside Early College High School Saturday, 10am-1pm, with community resources, interactive activities, performances, and celebration.

The last time Oliver Tree graced an Austin stage, at ACL Fest 2019, the injured singer whirled around in a gold-painted wheelchair affixed with a microphone stand, wearing a giant foam cowboy hat. That novelty headwear could be seen as seminal imagery for the meme-keen artist, whose latest visual concept is a gratuitously crying cowboy.: “I cry a lot. I’m a very emotional guy. I don’t really cry from being sad as much as I cry from being moved,” says Tree, who says his latest release – a collection of country-themed, pop punk-accented, acoustic guitar-driven sad boy bangers titled Cowboy Tears – addresses a stigma. “In America it’s like, ‘Don’t cry, suck it up, toughen up,’ and I think that’s bullshit.”: That masculinity complex gets lampooned with recent clips of his emotional cowboy face on the frame of a bodybuilder that Tree claims is actually him: “I was upset because I was working out with three different personal trainers, drinking Muscle Milk for breakfast and Muscle Milk for dinner, but I ended up essentially being tricked into taking steroids which, to me, was just not cool.”: As for performing in Texas, where cowboys still exist, Tree says: “I’ve been seeing a lot of cowboys coming to these shows and some of them even have cowboy tears tattoos and customized hats and jackets. The country community has really embraced me.”

Vs. Milwaukee Admirals. Arrive early for a poster giveaway at Saturday's game.