Washington (AP) – The organizers and the Kennedy center have canceled the celebration of one week LGBTQ+ Rights for the World Pride Festival of this SUMM in Washington, DC, in the midst of a change in priorities and the Ohting of Leadership.
Multiple artists and producers involved during the Tapestry of Pride schedule, which had been planned for June 5 to 8, told The Associated Press that their events had been canceled in silence or transferred to other places. And following the cancellations, the Washington Pride Capital Alliance has dissociated ITELF of the Kennedy Center.
“We are a resistant community, and we have found other ways to celebrate,” said June Crenshaw, deputy director of the Alliance. “We are finding another way to the celebration … but the fact that we have to maneuver in this way is disappointing.”
The Kennedy Center website still lists El Tapiz or pride on its website with a general description and a link to the world pride site. There are no other details.
The Kennedy center did not respond to an AP request for comments.
The measure occurs immediately after the massive changes in the Kennedy center, with President Donald Trump saying both the president and the president in early February. Trump replaced the majority of the Board with loyal, which is then the new president of the Kennedy Center.
The World Pride event, held every two years, begins in a little less than a month, which extends from May 17 to June 8 with presentations and celebrations planned throughout the capital city. But Trump’s administration policies on transgender rights and comments on drag actions at the Kennedy center have caused a group about what the deans of Child of Reception will receive.
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Rest told AP that he was in the final stages to plan the performance of the Kennedy center after months of emails and zoom calls. He was waiting for a final contract when Trump published on social networks on February 7 of leadership changes and his intention to transform the programming of the Kennedy Center.
Immediately Kennedy’s center did not respond, Rest said. On February 12, he said, he recovered an email from a prayer of an employee of the Kennedy center who states: “We can no longer advance in his contract at this time.”
“They get used to very anxious for hosts to nothing,” he said. “We have not heard from anyone at the Kennedy center, but that will not stop us.”
Following the cancellation, Alest said he managed to transfer the performance of the International Pride Orchestra to the Strathmore Theater in the nearby Bethesda, Maryland.
Croww said that some other events, including an hour of drag tales and an exhibition of parts of the AIDS memorial quilt, would move to the World Pride welcome center in Chinatown.
Monica Alford, a veteran artist and culture journalist and event planner, was scheduled to organize an event on June 8 as part of the tapestry or pride, but said she also saw that communication ended abruptly within a few days of Trump’s acquisition.
Alford has a long history with the Kennedy Center and organized the first drag brunch in the Kennedy Center Rambsp in 2024, and said that he considered the institution and its recent expansion known as the scope, as “my base of operations” and “a safe space for” and “a safe space” and “a safe space” and space for the queer “”
She said she was still finishing the details of her event, which she described as “destined to be familiar, just like drag brunch was friendly to the family, elegant and sophisticated.”
She said she cries the loss of the association she nurtured with the Kennedy center.
“We are doing bad service to our community, not only to the queer community but to the entire community,” he said.
Roest said he never recovered an explanation of why the performance was canceled so late in the planning stages. He said that his orchestra would no longer preliminary acting at the Kennedy center, and believes that most strange artists would make the same decision.
“There should be a very, very public statement or inclusion of the administration, of that Board, for us to anyone,” he said. “Otherwise, it is a hostile performance space.”
