One Pride celebration is changing venues this weekend after an online controversy caught the eye of a state representative.

The Riverside Pride Festival will now take place on Saturday, Oct. 11, at Faith UCC Church in New Braunfels. While organizers told KSAT the last three festivals happened at the Comal County Fairgrounds, they said out of “an abundance of caution,” moving locations this year would be safer for all attending.

Concern surfaced on social media a few days ago about the appropriateness of an all-ages drag show on the festival’s schedule.

State Rep. Carrie Isaac, a Republican whose district includes New Braunfels, told KSAT that past photographs from Riverside Pride and a recent caption written by one person originally slated to perform started the conversation about why t

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