WASHINGTON – International musician Braid 2025 achieved music, with a pop icon in the National Stadium, until May 31. But for Washington, DC, celebrations of a series of pride translated on Saturday began, including Trans Pride.
Hundreds of LGBTQ marches, seminars, parties, parties and beyonds are planned after the next three weeks throughout the country’s capital, including Black PRIDE and Latin Pide. All of this is crowned at a two -day closure festival on June 7 and 8 with a procession, footnote and concerts on Pennsylvania Street by Sinatia Evo and Doshi.
The classic international event usually draws more than a million visitors from all over the world and across the LGBTQ spectrum. However, the events of this year will carry both a special resonance and anxiety of anxiety at the community level due to the policies of President Donald Trump’s administration.
Trump’s general hatred for transit protection and withdrawals already prompted two international organizations from LGBTQ, Egale Canada and the African Human Rights Coalition, to issue warnings against traveling to the United States at all. The main concern is that transit or unusual individuals will face a problem in entering the country if passport monitoring employees impose a strict bilateral view of the administration from the sexual situation.
“I think it is fair that international numbers will not be high because of the climate and doubts,” said Ryan Boss, CEO of the Capital Pedic alliance. “At the same time, we know that there is urgency and importance to appear and make sure that we remain visible and see our freedoms.”
Anxiety from Trump’s approach to gay rights
The transgression of the rights of the transgender was a major point for Trump’s presidential campaign last year, and since his return to the White House in January, he has been following orders to recognize people as male or only females, and girls and women are sexually transformed from sports competitions for females, restricting military forces over the sexes, and restricting federal funding for care.
All efforts are challenged in court; Judges have put some policies pending, but they are currently allowing to pay to remove members of the transgender service forward. Public Affairs Research Research survey of Associated Press found a support of some of his efforts.
In February, Trump launched a acquisition at the Kennedy Center for Dramatic Arts, and publicly promised to purify the shows from the institution’s stages. Within days of this acquisition, the Kennedy Center suddenly came out of the plans of hosting the International Praid Orchestra as part of a series of global events of pride, entitled “TAPESTRY OF PRIDE”. In the aftermath of this cancellation, the Capital Brid Alliance canceled throughout the week and transferred some fabric events to alternative places.
Some potential international participants have announced plans to overcome this year’s events, either for fear of harassment or as a boycott against Trump’s policies. But others called for mobilizing the capital, on the pretext that the establishment of the existence of hostile spaces is the exact and proud history of society.
“We have been here before. There is nothing new in the sun,” said Zakari Parker, a member of the Capital Council, a gay. “While this is an unknown area … the struggle for humanity is not new to those in the LGBTQ+community.”
The appearance can carry a symbolic weight
accident An editorial in the blade By Argentine activist Mariano Ruiz argued about “the symbolic weight to appear anyway”, despite legitimate concerns.
“If we specify a precedent that the international LGBTQI+ events cannot happen under the right or anti-T-LGBTQI+ governments, we will actually exclude an increasing list of countries from hosting,” Ruiz wrote. “For those who say that the presence of global pride in the capital normalizes Trump’s policies, I say: What is a larger statement than people, transit, between people, and non -Polyprops from all over the world, gather with a challenge in its capital?
According to estimates in 2023, in 2023, more than a million visitors to Sydney, Australia, according to estimates. It is too early to know if the numbers this year will match with them, but the organizers admit that they expect the international presence be affected.
Destinification DC, which tracks hotel reservation numbers, estimated that reservations for this year during global pride is less than 10 % of the same period in 2024, but the organization notes in a statement that the numbers may tend to “a major agreement at the city level” last year coincided with what will be the last week of global pride this year.
However, with the approaching history, the organizers and preachers expect an unforgettable party. If the international participation decreases concretely this year, as many expect, then hope is that local participants will explain the point of attendance.
“The revolution is now,” said Parker, a member of the Capital Council. “There is no evidence of resistance greater than being present and being you, and this is what the world will represent to the evaporation of millions of people.”
