WorldPride gathers in Washington while Trump fell the LGBTQ rights

Washington – LGBTQ people around the world meet in Washington this week for a parade, a political rally and cultural performance marking WorldPride to channel joy in sexual and sex diversity as well as indignation in the face of hindsight by the Trump administration of their rights.

WorldPride, which takes place in a city different from the whole world every two years, has been taking place for weeks and will continue until the end of June, bringing hundreds of thousands of demonstrators almost at the step of the door of President Donald Trump.

The WorldPride parade will walk in a house of houses on the White House field on Saturday, and the rally will be held on Sunday at Lincoln Memorial, the “I Dream” speech site by Martin Luther King in 1963.

Trump is certainly the target of demonstrations.

He issued decrees limiting the rights of transgender, prohibited transgender people from serving in the armed forces and has canceled anti-discrimination policies for LGBTQ people as part of a campaign to repeal diversity, equity and inclusion programs. His actions were applauded by the conservatives.

According to the group of travel and trade, the travel group and the commercial group, DC DC, even if some participants suggested a boycott to protest against Trump’s policies or suggested that some potential participants suggested a boycotter to protest against Trump’s policies.

The White House did not respond to requests for comments from Reuters. He said that his transgender policy protects women by keeping transgender women outside of shared spaces such as housewife shelters and workplace showers, and described that a form of discrimination based on breed or sex. Dei supporters consider that it is necessary to correct historical inequalities.

Ryan Bos, Executive Director of Capital Pride Alliance, who directs the coordination of the world, said that many lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer people fear for their safety, their safety, their mental health and do not see much hope at the moment. “”

This makes this “year which we must make sure that we remain visible and seen so that people know that there is a place for them, that there are people who fight for them,” he said.

The African Human Rights Coalition, which provides humanitarian services and protection for LGBTQ refugees and asylum seekers, called for a WorldPride boycott because it declared that the United States was “now governed by an antagonistic fascist regime which presents separate dangers for LGBTQ + foreign participants”.

“It is not a matter as usual and not a moment of celebration, but rather the moment of resistance,” he said.

“Deviant, United and Unstoppable”

The policy and concerns about crossing the border during the repression of Trump’s immigration should contribute to a 7% drop in international travel expenses in the United States this year, according to the World Travel and Tourism Council.

Toronto’s Purple Fins, a self-written “gender” swimming club of non-binary and transgender athletes, made the difficult decision to skip the World LGBTQIA + Aquatics Championship to be held in Washington.

Brandon Wolf, spokesperson for the human rights campaign, the largest pro-LGBTQ organization in the United States, said queer people “rightly feel nervous and frightened”, but that WorldPride will be “an opportunity for the LGBTQ + community to specify that this is not going anywhere, that we cannot be intimidated in the closet”.

“I am really supported by the fact that the LGBTQ + community seems to say aloud and clearly that pride is, and has always been, a demonstration, and that they intend to appear provocative, united and unstoppable,” said Wolf.

But transgender people have said that they feel targeted by Trump’s rhetoric and the laws of the states adopted in the country that have prohibited transgender health services for minors. The donors of these laws say they are trying to protect minors from starting a path that they could regret later.

Susan Stryker, author of the 2008 “Transgender History” book and distinguished visitor at the Clayman Institute for Gender Research of the University of Stanford, said that the framing of the Trump agenda as anti-dei or anti-lgbtq was a “drawback”.

“They are very specifically transgender people they come from,” said Stryker. “Public speech has been armed with trans problems.”

Marissa Miller, a transgender activist from Chicago who goes to Washington with the transversitive national march, said that the location of WorldPride events would allow demonstrators of their resistance.

Sydney welcomed WorldPride in 2023. Washington was chosen to welcome in November 2022, before Trump’s re -election.

“The universe is ready to introduce us,” said Miller. “And I think that if it was going to be in another place, the consideration should have moved to Washington.”