World Pride event organizers change venues after Trump's Kennedy Center takeover
This discussion thread was locked as off-topic by Yonnie3 (a host of the Latest Breaking News forum).
Source: NBC News
April 26, 2025, 5:08 PM EDT
Several LGBTQ+ pride events to be held as part of Washington, D.C.’s World Pride celebrations in May and June have been relocated from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The affected events include an International Pride Orchestra concert, a drag story hour and Pride-related art exhibits, including one featuring panels from the AIDS Memorial Quilt. The Associated Press was the first to report on the changes.
Event organizers say some were moved after the Kennedy Center informed them that it would not move forward with contracts to host them, while others were moved proactively after President Donald Trump abruptly fired several members of the Kennedy Center Board of Trustees in February and made himself chairman.
The president wrote in a Truth Social post at the time, “Just last year, the Kennedy Center featured Drag Shows specifically targeting our youth — THIS WILL STOP.”
Ryan Bos, executive director of the Capital Pride Alliance, a group that is one of the main organizers of World Pride, described the post as the “writing on the wall” that prompted his group to move the gatherings it planned to host at the Kennedy Center elsewhere.
Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/world-pride-event-organizers-move-events-trumps-kennedy-center-rcna203162
= new reply since forum marked as read
