Austin’s Pride Texas Festival hit on a winning formula this year. It settled on Auditorium Shores while linking directly to the Gay Pride Parade that snaked through downtown. That meant all the aggregate dignity coalesced around the Drake Bridge on South First Street. Equality Texas, the group advocating fair treatment for the GLBTQ community, had organized the fest for the past 13 years. They recently turned over responsibility to the Pride Coalition, which, in turn, named the Austin Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce, longtime organizers of the parade, as parents of the new pride plus. This “will require a whole ...