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Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2026 3:39 pm
The room was electric. It was April 2009, and dozens of people were packed into the basement of the Student Services Building at UT Austin — observers, partisans, true believers. When a 20-year-old Student Government Assembly member named Jimmy Talarico leaned into the microphone and said, “And if Littlefield Fountain needs to go dry for a few weeks every year so that tuition isn’t raised, I think we’ll be okay,” the crowd erupted.
Source: https://www.advocate.com/opinion/james- ... -pride-pin