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Queer Texans Demand Equality

by Chronicle Staff June 12, 2017October 30, 2025

Jess Herbst, Mayor of New Hope, Texas, addresses the crowd.
Austin D6 Council Member Jimmy Flannigan, the city’s first openly gay man elected to Council
On Sunday, June 11, hundreds of LGBTQ+ folks and allies marched at Austin’s sister protest to D.C.’s Equality and Pride March.
U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett
On Sunday, June 11, hundreds of LGBTQ+ folks and allies marched at Austin’s sister protest to D.C.’s Equality and Pride March.
Meghan Stabler, board member of the Human Rights Campaign
Mayor Steve Adler speaks out about equality.
On Sunday, June 11, hundreds of LGBTQ+ folks and allies marched at Austin’s sister protest to D.C.’s Equality and Pride March.
Babadook demands LGBTQ+ equality now.
On Sunday, June 11, hundreds of LGBTQ+ folks and allies marched at Austin’s sister protest to D.C.’s Equality and Pride March.
Flannigan, Stabler, Doggett, Adler, and Zach Rodriguez – Flannigan’s partner.
Former (out) Houston Mayor Annise Parker
On Sunday, June 11, hundreds of LGBTQ+ folks and allies marched at Austin’s sister protest to D.C.’s Equality and Pride March.
On Sunday, June 11, hundreds of LGBTQ+ folks and allies marched at Austin’s sister protest to D.C.’s Equality and Pride March.
On Sunday, June 11, hundreds of LGBTQ+ folks and allies marched at Austin’s sister protest to D.C.’s Equality and Pride March.
On Sunday, June 11, hundreds of LGBTQ+ folks and allies marched at Austin’s sister protest to D.C.’s Equality and Pride March.
On Sunday, June 11, hundreds of LGBTQ+ folks and allies marched at Austin’s sister protest to D.C.’s Equality and Pride March.
On Sunday, June 11, hundreds of LGBTQ+ folks and allies marched at Austin’s sister protest to D.C.’s Equality and Pride March.
On Sunday, June 11, hundreds of LGBTQ+ folks and allies marched at Austin’s sister protest to D.C.’s Equality and Pride March.
On Sunday, June 11, hundreds of LGBTQ+ folks and allies marched at Austin’s sister protest to D.C.’s Equality and Pride March.
On Sunday, June 11, hundreds of LGBTQ+ folks and allies marched at Austin’s sister protest to D.C.’s Equality and Pride March.
On Sunday, June 11, hundreds of LGBTQ+ folks and allies marched at Austin’s sister protest to D.C.’s Equality and Pride March.
On Sunday, June 11, hundreds of LGBTQ+ folks and allies marched at Austin’s sister protest to D.C.’s Equality and Pride March.
On Sunday, June 11, hundreds of LGBTQ+ folks and allies marched at Austin’s sister protest to D.C.’s Equality and Pride March.
On Sunday, June 11, hundreds of LGBTQ+ folks and allies marched at Austin’s sister protest to D.C.’s Equality and Pride March.
On Sunday, June 11, hundreds of LGBTQ+ folks and allies marched at Austin’s sister protest to D.C.’s Equality and Pride March.
On Sunday, June 11, hundreds of LGBTQ+ folks and allies marched at Austin’s sister protest to D.C.’s Equality and Pride March.
On Sunday, June 11, hundreds of LGBTQ+ folks and allies marched at Austin’s sister protest to D.C.’s Equality and Pride March.

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