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    Kennedy Center events scheduled for LGBTQ+ pride celebration have been canceled

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    Kennedy Center events scheduled for LGBTQ+ pride celebration have been canceled

    Cliff Notes – LGBTQ+ pride celebration have been canceled

    • The Kennedy Center has cancelled a series of events planned for LGBTQ+ rights as part of the World Pride festival in Washington, D.C., due to changing priorities and recent leadership changes
    • Following the cancellations, the Capital Pride Alliance has distanced itself from the Kennedy Center, expressing disappointment but emphasising the resilience of the LGBTQ+ community in finding alternative avenues for celebration
    • The cancellations coincide with significant restructuring at the Kennedy Center, including the dismissal of its leadership by President Trump, raising concerns about the treatment of LGBTQ+ artists and events under the new administration.

    Kennedy Center events scheduled for LGBTQ+ pride celebration have been canceled, organizers say

    Kennedy Center events scheduled for LGBTQ+ pride celebration have been canceledThe Kennedy Center is seen Aug. 13, 2019, in Washington – LGBTQ+ pride celebration have been canceled

    Organizers and the Kennedy Center have canceled a week’s worth of events celebrating LGBTQ+ rights for this summer’s World Pride festival in Washington, D.C., amid a shift in priorities and the ousting of leadership at one of the nation’s premier cultural institutions.

    Multiple artists and producers involved in the center’s Tapestry of Pride schedule, which had been planned for June 5 to 8, said that their events had been quietly canceled or moved to other venues. And in the wake of the cancellations, Washington’s Capital Pride Alliance has disassociated itself from the Kennedy Center.

    “We are a resilient community, and we have found other avenues to celebrate,” said June Crenshaw, deputy director of the alliance. “We are finding another path to the celebration … but the fact that we have to maneuver in this way is disappointing.”

    The Kennedy Center’s website still lists Tapestry of Pride on its website with a general description and a link to the World Pride site. but all the additional deatils have been removed.

    The Kennedy Center did not respond to a request from the WTX News USA for comment.

    The move comes on the heels of massive changes at the Kennedy Center, with President Donald Trump firing both the president and chairman in early February. Trump replaced most of the board with loyalists, who then elected him the new Kennedy Center chairman.

    LGBTQ+ pride celebration have been canceled

    The World Pride event, held every two years, starts in just under a month — running from May 17 through June 8 with performances and celebrations planned across the capital city. But Trump administration policies on transgender rights and comments about Kennedy Center drag performances have sparked concern about what kind of reception attendees will receive.

    “I know that D.C. as a community will be very excited to be hosting World Pride, but I know the community is a little bit different than the government,” said Michael Roest, founder and director of the International Pride Orchestra, which had its June 5 performance at the Kennedy Center abruptly canceled within days of Trump’s takeover.

    Roest told the AP he was in the final stages of planning the Kennedy Center performance after months of emails and Zoom calls. He was waiting on a final contract when Trump posted on social media Feb. 7 of the leadership changes and his intention to transform the Kennedy Center’s programming.

    Immediately the Kennedy Center became nonresponsive, Roest said. On Feb. 12, he said, he received a one-sentence email from a Kennedy Center staffer stating, “We are no longer able to advance your contract at this time.”

    “They went from very eager to host to nothing,” he said. “We have not since heard a word from anybody at the Kennedy Center, but that’s not going to stop us.”

    In the wake of the cancellation, Roest said he managed to move the International Pride Orchestra performance to the Strathmore theater in nearby Bethesda, Maryland.

    Crenshaw said some other events, including a drag story time and a display of parts of the AIDS Memorial Quilt, would be moved to the World Pride welcome center in Chinatown.

    Monica Alford, a veteran event planner with a long history of working with the Kennedy Center, was scheduled to organize an event June 8 as part of Tapestry of Pride, but said she also saw communication abruptly end within days of Trump’s takeover.

    Alford organized the first ever drag brunch on the Kennedy Center rooftop in 2024, and said she regarded the institution — and its recent expansion known as The Reach — as “my home base” and “a safe space for the queer community”

    She said she was still finalizing the details of her event, which she described as “meant to be family-friendly, just like the drag brunch was family-friendly and classy and sophisticated.”

    She said she mourns the loss of the partnership she nurtured with the Kennedy Center.

    “We’re doing our community a disservice — not just the queer community but the entire community,” she said.

    Never received an explanation

    Roest said he never received an explanation as to why the performance was canceled so late in the planning stages. He said his orchestra would no longer consider performing at the Kennedy Center, and he believes most queer artists would make the same choice.

    “There would need to be a very, very public statement of inclusivity from the administration, from that board, for us to consider that,” he said. “Otherwise it is a hostile performance space.”

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