Vianna is also an adjunct journalism instructor at Texas State University in San Marcos. She is now covering city government, with a continued focus on growth and development. Vianna led the Express-News' in-depth look at San Antonio's rapid growth, an 18-month investigation that resulted in the six-part "The Next Million" story project in the summer of 2016. We celebrate every individuals uniqueness while nurturing their confidence and making it sustainable.
Our primary focus is promoting self-love for the skin that youre in, no matter your hue, color, shape, or size. She covered transportation from 2011 to 2015, for which she was named Express-News Reporter of the Year in 2013. The Official Big Boy Pride is a Gay Pride event thats community-driven.
Shortly after graduation from Berkeley, she returned to the Express-News to cover general assignments, the city's Spanish colonial missions and to produce videos for the paper's website. orlandos come out with pride festival presented by the glass knife (oct. Her thesis film, "In His Blood," won the prize for best short documentary at the San Antonio Film Festival in 2009. Vianna left the paper in 2007 to pursue her master's in journalism-documentary at the University of California at Berkeley. In 2005, she joined the Express-News metro reporting staff, covering crime for the next two and a half years. That year, she was hired at the San Antonio Express-News as a reporter for what was then the paper's community news section, Neighbors. She graduated from Rice University with a bachelor's degree in English in 2002. Vianna Davila was born and raised in San Antonio. It has been called the worst mass shooting in American history, with 49 people killed and 53 people wounded, many of them gay.
That theme may be especially appropriate after the June 12 mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, a popular gay dance club and bar. The entire event is called Pride “Bigger Than Texas.” This year’s theme is “Peace. Many people think the event isn’t family friendly, but it is, he said, featuring a variety of vendors at the festival. LGBT pride (also known as gay pride) is the promotion of the self-affirmation, dignity, equality, and increased visibility of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people as a social group.Pride, as opposed to shame and social stigma, is the predominant outlook that bolsters most LGBT rights movements. board of directors, hopes attendees will “be able to see the diversity of the community and the diversity of the businesses that we have.” James Poindexter, director of Pride “Bigger Than Texas” and secretary of the Pride San Antonio Inc. The parade grand marshals are state District Judge Ron Rangel, who performed a mass wedding at last year’s Pride Festival, and Bexar County Court-at-Law Judge Eugenia “Genie” Wright, who performed some of the first same-sex marriage ceremonies in the county after last year’s Supreme Court decision legalizing the unions. at Dewey Place and North Main Avenue, in front of the Silver Dollar Saloon, and ends at Lexington and Euclid.Īdmission to the festival is $10, but the parade is free.