Attendees celebrate Pride Month on the streets of Washington, D.C. In June 2024. Capital Pride Alliance

Pride Month in the nation's capital this year is expected to draw hundreds of thousands of participants across three weeks of programming consisting of over 300 events for World Pride 2025, an annual international festival that celebrates the LGBTQ+ community.

Organizers for the global celebration this year told ABC News they are emphasizing messages of resistance, resilience and, above all, hope at a time when LGBTQ+ individuals, particularly the transgender community, are being targeted on various fronts by the Trump administration.

World Pride 2025 makes its way back to the U.S. for the first time since 2019, when organizers chose New York City to host the festival the same ye

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