Organizers in Corpus Christi’s LGBTQ community are busy preparing for the third annual Pride celebration, which this year consists of 10 days of events including a parade and block party. The Corpus Christi Pride celebrations will take place from June 2 to 13. They are being presented by the Mosaic Project of South Texas, a…
Corpus Christi to Get LGBT Community Center
Corpus Christi soon will become the sixth city in Texas to have an LGBT community center. If all goes as planned, the new facility will open in March 2019. The new center will be part of the Coastal Bend Wellness Foundation, which was formerly the Coastal Bend AIDS Foundation. In 2012, the nonprofit changed its…
Corpus Christi’s First-Ever Pride Parade Scheduled for June
Originally published in the San Antonio Current. The first-ever Pride parade to be held in Corpus Christi will take place through the streets of Corpus’ downtown this year on June 3. After 10 months of planning and collaborating with the city of Corpus Christi, Pride Downtown, a community-focused organization that concentrates on equal rights, says it’s…
Catching Up with Artist and Entrepreneur Ana Fernandez
With a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA from the University of California at Los Angeles, Corpus Christi-born artist Ana Fernandez could have settled into a secure academic career. She taught at San Antonio College after returning to her adopted hometown in 2009, but then an entrepreneurial urge…