“This hostile rhetoric, the lengths to which they’ve gone to punish people for existing as LGBTQ, all of it is a testament to just how much our power scares them,” said Wolf, noting that Washington’s pushback against Pride comes as the city hosts ...

After the raucous rainbow-hued festivities of Saturday’s parade, the final day of World Pride 2025 in the nation’s capital kicked off on a more downbeat note.

Demonstrators gathered in Washington on Sunday for World Pride, a bi-annual event that this year took on political overtones.