Washington - World's Proud 2025 Welcome Concert, Pop Idol Shakira performs at National Stadium until May 31.
Over the next three weeks, including Black Pride and Latin Pride, hundreds of LGBTQ rallies, workshops, parties, parties and parties afterwards are planned for the next three weeks. This is all in the two-day closing festival, held on June 7 and 8, with parades, rally and concerts held by Cynthia Erivo and Doechii.
The annual international event usually attracts one million visitors from around the world and from the LGBTQ spectrum. But this year’s event will bring special resonance and special sense of community anxiety due to President Donald Trump’s administration policies.
Trump’s public resentment to transgender and resistance performances has prompted two international LGBTQ groups, Egalle, Canada and the African Union of Human Rights, to avoid warnings of travel to the United States. The main problem is that if passport control personnel enforce the government’s strict view of the gender status, transgender or non-binary individuals will face trouble entering the country.
“I think it’s a fair assumption that international numbers won’t be that high due to climate and uncertainty,” said Ryan Bos, executive director of Capital Pride Alliance. “At the same time, we know the urgency and importance of coming out and ensuring that we remain visible, seeing and protecting our freedoms.”
Opposing trans rights was a key point in Trump’s presidential campaign last year, and he has been following up since returning to the White House in January and ordered acknowledgement that people are just men or women, to eliminate trans girls and women with women’s sports competitions, to drive out thransert transder military forces’ sports competitions, limiting trans care for trans people to provide trans people with under-19 parenting, and to provide faithful loyalty and loyalty to 19 and threatening research.
All efforts are challenged in court; judges have suspended some policies but are currently pushing forward the push to expel trans service members. A Associated Press News Agency's Center for Public Affairs Research, supported some of his efforts.
In February, Trump launched the acquisition at the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts and promised to clear the resistance performance from the institution's stage. Within days of taking over, the Kennedy Center suddenly withdrew from its plan to host the International Pride Orchestra, part of a week-long World Pride crossover, titled “The Tapestry of Pride.” After canceling this cancellation, Capital Pride Alliance canceled the entire week and moved some tapestries to alternative venues.
Some potential international players have announced plans to skip this year’s event, whether it’s fear of harassment or boycotting Trump’s policies. But others have called for mobilization to flood the capital, believing that building existence in potentially hostile spaces is the precise and proud history of the community.
"We've been here before," said DC Council member Zachary Parker. "Although this is an unknown territory...the struggle for humanity is not new for people in the LGBTQ+ community. ”
Argentine activist Mariano Ruiz's recent editorial in Blade is "Symbol weight that appears anyway", despite reasonable concern.
"If we set a precedent for global LGBTQI+ events that are impossible to happen under the right-wing or anti-LGBTQI+ government, we will effectively cancel the hosting list for an increasing number of countries," Ruiz wrote. "For those who are honored to participate in the world pride in DC, I say: The statement that gathers in his capital more critically than queer, trans, bisexual and non-binary people from all over the world? What is a stronger statement?
It is estimated that in 2023, the last world pride attracted more than one million tourists to Sydney, Australia. It is too early to say whether the numbers match those this year, but organizers acknowledge that they hope international attendance will be affected.
Destination DC, which tracks hotel booking numbers, estimates that in 2024, World Pride bookings lag 10% of the same period, but the organization noted in a statement that last year’s “main citywide conventions” could be tilted towards the last week of World Pride.
Still, as the date approaches, organizers and advocates are predicting a memorable party. If many predict that international participation this year can be measured, then hopefully domestic participants will come up with key points.
"The revolution is now," said DC Council member Parker. "There is no proof of greater resistance than attending and being yours, and that's what world pride will represent for millions."