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Activations
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Música
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Food & Drink
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Vendor Market
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Resource Booths
🌈 Activations 💃 Music 🌮 Food & Drink 🛍 Vendor Market 🍧 Resource Booths
Pride Picnic 2026
Saturday, June 27, 2026
10am - 2pm • Pease district park • 1100 Kingsbury Street
Presentado por Pease Park Conservancy y Future Front Texas
Interested in being a part of the Future Front Vendor Market at Pride Picnic?
WHAT TO EXPECT
🎪 A vendor market featuring 30 local artists and makers curated by Future Front Texas
✂️ Pease Park’s Rainbow Ribbon Cutting with the Austin LGBT Chamber of Commerce
🌈 Info booths featuring organizations that support Austin’s LGBTQIA+ community
🌳 Park features like the Splashpad, Treehouse, Malin the Troll, and Natureplay
🔊 DJ Sets by Future Front resident artists
🎤 Sing-Along led by UUMC Queer Quire
🎨 All-ages crafts and workshops
🌮 El Mariachi’s Tacos Food Truck
🍧 SnoRide ATX Snobox Truck
☕️ Brother Friend Coffee Cart
💚 Community Weaving Wall
🍹 The Terrace Tavern Bar
🎸 Live music
2026 PRIDE PICNIC EVENT CHAIR
GERARDO GANDY
With a background in architecture, interior design, and brand strategy, Gerardo is the Practice Area Leader for Brand Design at Gensler Austin, leading experience strategy across sports, entertainment, hospitality, and mixed-use development. He is on the front lines of creating the vision for how urban, cultural, and architectural landscape is transforming in Austin. A member of the steering committee for Gensler’s Community Impact Program, Gerardo helps guide the firm’s vision for community impact by focusing efforts and resources on initiatives ranging from nonprofit collaborations, mentorship programs, and community events. Gerardo was named the 2018 Associate Member of the year by the AIA Austin and is the recipient of the 2020 Austin Under 40 Awards in the category of Architecture, Construction, and Engineering, and was recognized by BD+C's National 40 Under 40 in 2023. Gerardo also serves on the Board of Pease Park Conservancy.
☀️ SUPPORT PRIDE PICNIC 2026 ☀️
Consider sponsoring at one of the following levels to keep Pride Picnic free and fun for all!
BECOME A SPONSOR
BOOK AN INFORMATION BOOTH
For sponsorship questions, please email donations@peasepark.org
🦺 LEND A HAND and volunteer 🦺
Click on the images below to sign up for a volunteer shift and help make the event safe and fun for all!
🚘 GETTING TO PRIDE PICNIC 🚘
Parking at Pease Park is limited, so we highly recommend public transportation, walking, biking, and rideshare whenever possible.
If you do drive, FREE parking can be found at the Austin Recreation Center (1301 Shoal Creek Blvd) and the ACC Rio Grande Parking Garage. (824 W 12th St). These options connect to Pease Park via a short walk along the Shoal Creek Trail and offer nearly 500 parking spots.
Visit our parking and transportation page to view all the ways you can get to Pease Park!
🌈 Thank You to our 2026 pride picnic sponsors 🌈
Keep Pride Cool
Keep Pride Groovy
FRIENDS OF PEASE PARK
Kei Dycor
Gary Schumann and Noel Landuyt
Jeff Harper and Mark Seeger
PREMIUM BOOTHS
STANDARD BOOTHS
👑 BRING YOUR GOLD 👑
Looking for another way to support? If you have gold jewelry you are ready to get rid of, bring it with you to Pride Picnic! At the event, Gold4Good will turn it into support for Pease Park Conservancy!
Gold4Good’s mission is to transform unwanted jewelry into social impact, allowing donors to contribute in new ways to their favorite causes.
📸 Looking Back AT Pride Picnic 2025 📸
Thank you to Rosy Campanita and Yvonne Uwah for capturing the magic of Pride Picnic!
For even more images, check out the Future Front Texas Pride Picnic Polaroid Yearbook.
💚 Thank you to our PREVIOUS EVENT CHAIRS 💚
Noel Landuyt is the Director for the Institute for Organizational Excellence and Assistant Professor of Instruction in the School of Social Work at the University of Texas at Austin. He has long been involved in LGBT advocacy work and currently serves as National Board Chair for Vivent Health, which provides HIV services to underserved communities around the United States. He is a Pease Park neighbor and a longtime supporter of the park.
Gary Schumann is the founding Partner of the Savrick, Schumann, Johnson & McGarr law firm. He is the past chair of the Austin LGBT Bar Association and the past chair of the Austin LGBT Chamber of Commerce. He is the current titleholder for Mr. Texas Leather First Runner-Up, and is the curator of Pease Park’s neighbor, BEPI Park.
🛍 Get Pease Park Pride Merch on Bonfire! 🛍
Shop different styles, colors, designs all while supporting Pease Park Conservancy!
