(8 Jun 2025)
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Washington – 8 June 2025
1. Various of signs and flags at World Pride 2025 Rally
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Tess Hayes, World Pride 2025 participant:
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“I’ve just seen all of the degradation in rights, especially trans rights here recently and especially trans right for kids, and it just feels important to show up for the community in this time. I’m also trans, so yeah.”
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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Tess Hayes, World Pride 2025 participant:
“It’s awful, and I’m really lucky that I’ve avoided a lot of the worst of it, but it disproportionately impacts poor communities and kids, and it hurts to see. It’s terrible times, right?”
4. Participant holding sign
5. People marching
6. Wide of Tyler Cargill wearing an elaborate costume with a hat topped by a replica of the U.S. Capitol building
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Tyler Cargill, World Pride 2025 participant:
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“Honestly, it’s just trans. It’s it’s trans people just want to be loved they everybody wants to be live their own life and I don’t understand the problem of it all but at the same time when you can politicize and make a group an enemy. It’s you’re gonna further your own agenda, so please stop doing this”
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Tess Hayes, World Pride 2025 participant:
“I guess it’s just that like we’re human beings, you know, and yeah, just– I wish that they could like meet us and see that we’re just people like anyone else, you know?”
19. Various of marching
STORYLINE:
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.
Thousands gathered under grey skies Sunday morning at the Lincoln Memorial for a rally and protest march, as the community gathers its strength for a looming fight under President Donald Trump’s second administration.
“This is not just a party,” Ashley Smith, board president of Capital Pride Alliance. “This is a rally for our lives.”
Protesters cheered on LGBTQ+ activists taking the stage while waving both traditional Pride flags and flags representing transgender, bisexual, intersex and other communities. Many had rainbow glitter and rhinestones adorning their faces. They held signs declaring “Fight back,” “Gay is good,” “Ban bombs not bathrooms” and “We will not be erased.”
“Trans people just want to be loved. Everybody wants to live their own lives and I don’t understand the problem with it all,” said Tyler Cargill, who came wearing an elaborate costume with a hat topped by a replica of the U.S. Capitol building.
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