2026 Austin Pride Parade! 

Basics:

What: Info to join the PFLAG Austin contingent in the Austin Pride Parade 🎉

When: Saturday, 8/22/2026, 7:00 pm

Where: San Jacinto Blvd between 11th St and 15th St. (Map below.)

Timetable (approximate):

• 7:00 pm PFLAG Austin’s parade vehicle in staging area. (Staging of contingents is from 3pm - 7:30pm.)

• 7:00 pm You arrive.

• 8:00 pm Parade’s first contingents step off. We estimate our contingent will probably step off around 8:30 pm - 9:00 pm.

Where to park:

• The most convenient parking is in State Parking Garage A. It’s about $10, good until 10 am Sunday morning.
  Bear in mind that at the end of the parade, you will be at the other end of the parade route. It might be better to park West of Congress, somewhere between Cesar Chavez and 11th St, so you don’t have as far to walk afterwards to get back to your car.

• It’s a good idea to carpool if you can.

• It’s best if your group have at least two cars, parking one at each end of the parade route.

• Allow plenty of time to arrive, find parking, and walk to find our contingent!

How to find us:

• We will have volunteers walking up and down the staging area with “Follow me to PFLAG Austin” signs to direct you to our contingent’s location.
  We will also the contingent’s location on our social media: our Facebook private group and in the meetup.com event.

Parade route:

• South on Congress Ave. from 11th St. to Ann Richards Bridge (aka Congress Ave Bridge). Main grandstand is on left side of Congress Ave. just North of 4th St.

• Route is about one mile.

• De-staging is on Ann Richards Bridge.

T-shirts!!!

• We will have our new PFLAG Austin t-shirts, free for everybody in our contingent!!!

Miscellaneous:

• We will have a four-passenger small SUV as our parade vehicle and “pack mule”, to carry water, supplies, etc.

• We will have a five-gallon jug of ice water 🧊 💧 . We will have cups but we strongly encourage you to bring your own refillable water bottle.

• Bring SHADE!!! There is zero shade in the staging area 🥵 . Bring an umbrella ☂️ and sunblock. You will thank us later!

• We will have lots of different Pride flags, each on a pole, for you to wave!

Volunteers needed:

We will need help with the following tasks. They’re all very easy but there are a lot of tasks so we need help because it’s tough for one or two people to do everything!

• During staging:

  • Two people to walk around with "Follow me to PFLAG Austin" signs to guide our people to our contingent’s location

  • One person to hand out t-shirts to people in our contingent

• During entire event:

  • One person to post updates in Facebook event

  • One person to post updates in meetup.com event

• During march:

• Two people to carry our banner in front: everybody can take turn to help out with this.

• Taking pics and videos and sharing them online, maybe via a Google Photos album or Apple iCloud Photos album. We'd love some high quality pics that we can use for our social media! (Be mindful of people in our contingent who might not want their pics out there. Though, it'd be a challenge to not have one's pics in public, being in a Pride parade!)