“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 ...

Reminders of the cuts to federal government programs were on full display. One attendee waved a pole bearing a massive rainbow flag along with a large USAID flag; another held a “Proud gay federal worker” sign; and a third held an umbrella with the logos of various federal program facing cuts — including the PBS logo.

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