A Trump Win Could Transform World Pride 2025
22.06.2024 - 21:43
/ metroweekly.com
World Pride will fill Washington, D.C.’s streets with affirming, magical mirth. This year, the Capital Pride Alliance gave us a great trial run. While a jubilee in its own right, this year’s festivities illustrated that World Pride 2025 should be safe, secure, and glorious.It may, however, also be a righteously angry occasion, as 2025 Washington could be the epicenter of a new, awful age.
Barring any seismic shenanigans, either President Joe Biden will hold the White House, or Donald Trump and his bully boys and goon girls will move in. If Hillary Clinton’s loss to The Don taught us anything, it is that we live in absurdly uncertain times. (And that the Electoral College should be abolished.)With a little luck and an engaged electorate, LGBTQ-allied Biden will hold the line and World Pride 2025 will be a boundlessly happy occasion.
If it goes the other way, I reckon it will look much more like the monumental Women’s March of 2017.An ironic twist takes us to Taiwan, that region’s LGBTQ oasis, and the originally scheduled site of World Pride 2025. The rationale for the change from Kaohsiung, Taiwan, to Washington, D.C. is a bit murky.
World Pride organizers, InterPride, and Taiwanese principals have somewhat differing takes on the matter.Did Taiwan Pride partners refuse a World Pride protocol of naming the event for the host city alone, insisting on World Pride Taiwan rather than World Pride Kaohsiung? Did InterPride worry about a Taiwan designation irking that country’s menacing big brother, China, considering InterPride recently gained United Nations consultative status, where China enjoys the powerful position of permanent membership on the UN Security Council?Don’t ask me. I don’t know. And I’m fairly certain that if I
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