Taylor PRIDE

09/28/2025

ARE YOU GOING TO ANSWER THE CALL?

The 2025 Pride season has come to an end and it’s time for OPEN CALLS for the 2026 Pride Season.

🫖 REAL TALK BABES…

We’ve been at this for 6 years. We’ve had some amazing board members, committee chairs, and volunteers throughout the years. Each have contributed their skills, passions, talents, energy, time, and lots of emotions to supporting the local Taylor (and beyond) LGBTQ+ community & their allies, creating safe spaces, building bridges to resources, & celebrating our PRIDE. Each and every one has contributed to the success of Taylor Pride!
But it’s been a small & mighty group who has put in all of the work, made many sacrifices & poured from cups that often times ran dry…but they kept pouring.

Now more than ever, the LGBTQ+ needs people in the fight, helping with the heavy lifting & creating safe spaces that are dwindling!! We need members of the community, we need allies & we need YOU on the team!!

There are going to be big changes for the 2026 Pride season, in order to remain sustainable & to continue to serve our community. Your ideas and talents could be exactly what is needed to make this year a success!!

WE’D ❤️ FOR YOU TO JOIN US!
No experience necessary! Just a desire to want to be on the right side of history, to want to love your neighbor, and to create the thing we need most right now….COMMUNITY! 🫶

OPEN CALL MEETING is Thursday, October 2, 6:30pm, St James Episcopal Church,
612 Davis St, Taylor, TX 76574, Perish Hall
DM for virtual meeting link if you can’t make it in person or have questions.

🏳️‍🌈 Board & Committee positions open🏳️‍⚧️

09/16/2025

📸 PORTRAITS WITH PRIDE 📸

NEED NEW HEADSHOTS, PROMO PHOTOS or FULL BODY GLAM IMAGES?

We are Co-hosting a professional photoshoot with the very talented photographer, ! A fundraiser benefiting Taylor Pride & Austin International Drag Festival!

Photo shoot is Friday 9/19 4-8 and Saturday 9/20 3-8p at the .

Photoshoot is not limited to the Drag Fest performers. Attendees welcome too!

If you haven’t made plans to attend the Austin International Drag Festival, what are you waiting for? 130 incredible Drag Performers, packed into one weekend! 😱 Does it get anymore fabulous than that?

To Book Appointment: https://www.jotform.com/form/252527928435061

Tickets to Austin International Drag Fest: https://sickening.events/e/aidf-2025?fbclid=PAZnRzaAM2zhBleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABp6nSpL2-L-OhPa_LWWyo5XQQkeWmi6pRA_xesTF29qQ1Wus7vzBvF8yX2u7g_aem_obq2TISFvPBS8JGwBB35lA

09/07/2025

HUGE THANKS to Georgetown Palace Theater for inviting the crew to see STOP KISS.

Run, don’t walk, to get your tickets. Today’s matinee performance is your last chance to see this brilliant and impactful play. Performed in the Palace playhouse, you get an intimate look at a beautiful blossoming love story and the tough challenges often faced by the LGBTQ+ community.

If you can’t make this performance. Be sure to follow for upcoming productions and support community theater and the performing arts!

Everything is better with community!

08/24/2025

Thanks for providing the coolest way to watch the Parade, , &

❤️,
Taylor Pride

07/29/2025

🎭 GIVEAWAY TIME! 🌈

Taylor Pride and Georgetown Palace Theatre are teaming up to give away TWO tickets to opening weekend of Stop Kiss — a powerful play written by Diana Son and directed by Morgan Urbanovsky.

Here’s how to enter:
1️⃣ Like this post
2️⃣ Tag a friend you’d bring
3️⃣ Follow and

🎟 Winner announced Monday, August 4th — tickets for Saturday, August 9th 7:30pm performance.

Stop Kiss is a powerful, heartfelt play that blends romance, tragedy, and timely themes of identity, love, and resilience. It tells the story of Callie and Sara, two women whose unexpected connection leads to a life-changing event following their first kiss. It’s a story that not only represents LGBTQ+ voices with care and authenticity, but also opens the door for reflection and dialogue.

07/02/2025

The 5th Annual Taylor Pride Music & Arts Festival was one for the books!!

Thank you to all who joined us, supported us, & sent words of encouragement. 🌈❤️

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06/30/2025

🏳️‍🌈THAT’S A WRAP, BABES!🏳️‍⚧️

As the last box of rainbow fringe gets tucked into storage & we rest our aching feet and tired bodies, we do it with the fullest hearts.
🩷❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🖤🤎🩵🤍🩷

THANK YOU FOR JOINING US for the 5th Annual Taylor Pride Music and Arts Festival

This was our biggest and best year, yet!! What a magical weekend!! Thanks for showing up! We do it all for YOU!

We are so grateful for our sponsors, vendors, entertainers, volunteers, board members, & committee chairs for making it all happen. We would be nothing without you!!! Our appreciation is endless!

We’ll be back soon with a recap but keep sharing your pics, vids, & posts and tagging Taylor PRIDE . Keep celebrating Q***r Joy, keep being your beautiful authentic selves, & keep loving one another!

Enjoy the rest of your summer!
WE LOVE YOU ALL! 🫶

06/30/2025

“NO” is sometimes just making room for a much better “YES”!

While the Mayor of Taylor declined to issue a Proclamation for Pride Day in Taylor, declined to listen to 1700 constituents voices, and declined our invitation to attend Taylor Pride Music & Arts Festival, we got something SO MUCH BETTER in return.

- A People’s Proclamation, FOR the people, BY the people! Signed & proclaimed by 100’s of beautiful citizens who have never needed another person to proclaim their existence!

- A resolution from the Texas House of Representatives issued by the office of State Representative John Bucy III, recognizing the contributions of the LGBTQ+ community & Taylor Pride organization and proclaiming Pride Day in Taylor, TX.

- Taylor Pride Day Proclamation issued by our headliner . Sealed with a 💋

- Tons of free media coverage, press & buzz about our festival, thanks to the mayor’s proclamation denial. We sure hope he made his handful of followers happy because he helped us gain 100’s of new followers and supporters from all over the state! We are so glad you are all here on this journey with us!

Special thanks to Jose Orta for reading the People’s proclamation and the House of Representatives proclamation at our festival and for being the incredible advocate for the LGBTQ+ community that you are!

06/28/2025

🎤 TODAY'S THE DAY! 🌈

Taylor Pride kicks off today — Saturday, June 28 from 4–10 PM and we’re thrilled to welcome everyone to an unforgettable evening of celebration, community, and love! 💖✨

We’re especially proud to give a HUGE shout-out to Samsung, the presenting sponsor of our Samsung Stage! As they build their groundbreaking semiconductor facility right here in Taylor, Samsung is also helping build up our community by supporting events like this one. 💪🏽🌟

Join us for live music, drag, dancing, vendors, food, and fun — all happening in downtown Taylor from 4 to 10 PM!

Thank you, Samsung, for your support and your investment in the future of Taylor. Let’s make tonight amazing! 🎶🏳️‍🌈

06/28/2025

🎶 Sponsor Spotlight: The Listening Room at St. James 🌈

As we come together today to celebrate Taylor Pride, we want to give heartfelt thanks to The Listening Room at St. James — a beautiful series of musical gatherings created by the talented Kelley McRae.

But Kelley doesn’t just bring music to Taylor — she brings love, healing, and community. With the support of St. James' Episcopal Church, Taylor, Texas, she’s helped create experiences like Claiming Space, a gathering for LGBTQ+ folks and allies to explore the hurt and hope of our spiritual journeys through art and reflection. She also hosts Show & Tell for Grown-Ups, a monthly celebration of creative expression.

We’re also deeply grateful for Rev. Kelly Barnhill, the newest vicar at St. James, who has jumped in with open arms and a full heart — helping make this year’s Taylor Pride possible through her support and encouragement.

From the music to the ministry, the team at St. James reminds us what radical love in action looks like. 💖

06/28/2025

🎪 It’s Festival Day, Taylor! 🌈

Before the lights come on and the music starts, we want to give a massive thank you to the team that literally makes it all possible — ATX Event Systems! 💡🎶🎤

For the past four years, ATX Event Systems, LLC has been the powerhouse behind the sound, stage, and lights of Taylor Pride — and they’ve done it with incredible generosity, donating time, talent, and resources to help this event shine.

If you’ve ever danced in front of our stage, heard your favorite song come through crisp and clear, or watched the lights dazzle as the sun goes down — you have ATX to thank.

We’re so grateful for their continued support and partnership. Come see their incredible work in action today from 4–10 PM in downtown Taylor!

06/27/2025

All jokes aside, we think our marketing team has done a fantastic job getting you all HYPED for the festival!

We hope to see you all THIS WEEKEND

- Music & Arts Festival: June 28th, 4-10p Heritage Square Park

- Taylor Pride Stage at Black Sparrow June 28 5-8

- Post Festival Wind Down: Author Don Mamone, Book signing & Pride Book Fair. June 29 11-1 Black Sparrow Music Parlor

Music: Real Girl by our HEADLINER 🔥