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## Video: WorldPride - a Massive LGBTQ Celebration - Is About to Collide With Donald Trump’s Washington VERTICAL

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_Published 2025-05-19. Washington is about to host a global festival for the LGBTQ community and its allies—all while President Donald Trump is in the White House overseeing a government that is wholly hostile to the visitors’ goals._


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## Transcript

The Washington Capital Region is expecting about 3 million people to visit for World Pride. Events start May 17th. They will extend through June 8th, and the bigger pride celebration will continue throughout the entire month of June. As is tradition, but there is a sense that this is going to be a little different than when folks started planning this right after the pandemic. Since then, Donald Trump has returned to Washington, and his administration and his partners in government at all levels have really stepped up their efforts to exclude LGBTQ rights. The white House issued executive orders right out of the gate, uh, banning transgender identities, non-binary identities.

The State Department said that you could really only have male or female on your passports and a half to match your birth certificates. It's been the same in Congress, where they've even started policing bathrooms against transgender individuals and are using congressional hearings to misgender members of Congress. And the Supreme Court recently said that trans service members cannot wear the uniform. It's been a real coordinated effort that has left a lot of the LGBTQ community feeling very targeted. Against that backdrop, though, we are expecting 2 to 3 million people here in the Capital Region for the festival parade, a march that is going to be pretty politically overt.

Plus a bunch of marquee entertainers Jennifer Lopez, Troye Sivan, Shakira, they will all be in the region over the course of this for big, splashy events. But there is a sense that this is going to be a little scaled back from where initially was planned. Part of that is President Trump's order against anything passing for die. And that includes anything that deals with affinity programming. So a lot of government contractors, Deloitte, Booz Allen Hamilton, they have suspended their participation and pulled their sponsorships. That has had a pretty chilling effect, as everyone is tiptoeing around what the consequences of running afoul of Donald Trump are.

That said, this does look like despite some pretty heavy security precautions, this does look like it's probably going to be a safe and celebratory event, but it is much different than the one that organizers initially started planning in 2021.

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