It is not just us that is on the chopping block but also the lesbians and the gays, and the gender queers, we were just the first line in Pastor Martin Niemöller poem.
The Pride concert with the National Symphony Orchestra called "A Peacock Among Pigeons" has been canceled.WUSA CH9By Alanea Cremen, Katie Lusso, Sophie RosenthalFebruary 18, 2025A WorldPride 2025 performance was quietly canceled at the Kennedy Center just a week into its new leadership under President Donald Trump, the Gay Men's Chorus of Washington, D.C., confirmed to WUSA9 on Tuesday.The chorus was supposed to perform in the Pride concert with the National Symphony Orchestra called "A Peacock Among Pigeons," on May 21 and 22 at the Kennedy Center. Tickets went on sale in July. But after Trump fired board members and installed himself as its new chairman, the listing for the performance disappeared from the Kennedy Center's schedule.The group said in a press release that they are deeply disappointed in the news."The piece was intended to be a part of the Kennedy Center’s Pride celebration and we were very excited to be collaborating with the NSO as their guest chorus," the release reads. "We believe in the power of music to educate and uplift, to foster love, understanding, and community, and we regret that this opportunity has been taken away."
The group has played there many. many times to sold out crowds and now they are being stop for playing by bigots! Homophobes and transphobes are censoring what we can read, watch, and listen to.
The Advocate writes,
The event, “A Peacock Among Pigeons: Celebrating 50 Years of Pride,” was scheduled for May 21–22 as part of the center’s acknowledgment of WorldPride 2025 inWashington, D.C. A centerpiece of the Kennedy Center’s Conflux initiative—its flagship social impact partnership program—the concert was designed to celebrate LGBTQ+ identity and visibility through music.It was set to feature singer-songwriter John Bucchino, special guests, and the orchestral premiere of Bucchino’s choral work A Peacock Among Pigeons, a piece about embracing one’s uniqueness, according toBroadway World. The NSO was also slated to perform works by LGBTQ+ composers and allies.
Crushed out of existence.
Tickets for the event first went on sale in June 2024, but the concert has now disappeared from the Kennedy Center’s website and ticketing system. It also does not appear on the WorldPride 2025 schedule. Capital Pride Alliance executive director Ryan Bos told The Advocate that the event is not part of the official WorldPride programming and, therefore, wasn’t on the group’s website.
The First Amendment and the Constitution means nothing to them!
A gathering to celebrate diversity and inclusion must reckon with an anti-DEI president.The Washington PostBy Colbert I. KingFebruary 13, 2025When an irresistible force — the upcoming WorldPride celebration in D.C. — meets an implacable foe — a president opposed to diversity, equity and inclusion — does something have to give? Unless the two sides come to terms, a head-on collision is in the offing.Not only does 2025 mark the 50th anniversary of Pride celebrations in our nation’s capital, but this year D.C. will host WorldPride 2025 from May 17 to June 8. WorldPride is an event that has lifted up and honored LGBTQ+ communities around the globe since 2000. Planners expect millions to flock to the District to participate in an array of events, parades and cultural activities held in nearly every corner of the city, public and private.Mayor Muriel E. Bowser and the D.C. Council have provided $5.25 million to support WorldPride 2025. The point of the whole undertaking, as the city’s website puts it, is to stage “an event that celebrates diversity, equality and love on a global scale.”
Nothing LGBTQ is safe with Trump in charge, are other Pride events on the chopping block?
Among the marquee events scheduled by Capital Pride Alliance, the local group helping to organize WorldPride 2025, is a “Tapestry of Pride at the Kennedy Center,” which is billed as “a celebration of diversity and unity, weaving together performances, exhibitions, and experiences for all ages.” A separate local group, meanwhile, is planning a “Trans Pride Washington, D.C.” celebration.Which is germane because the bidding to bring WorldPride to D.C., and the planning for the many Pride events now on tap, occurred without the reality of Donald Trump as president of the United States. Elections have consequences, and the presence of Trump and his anti-DEI policies is being felt in ways the WorldPride organizers might have never imagined.
Is you local Pride event next? Will the haters be embolden to cancel local Pride events?
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