With feathers, sequins, booty shorts, and plenty of rainbows, the WorldPride Parade traveled down 14th Street NW to 919 Pennsylvania Ave. NW on Saturday afternoon. The bustling sidewalks were filled with fanfare, defiance, and an overwhelming sense of Pride buzzing from the participants and paradegoers. Though attendance for the international celebration was lower than the originally expected 3 million attendees, the LGBTQIA community did what it always does and radiated queer excellence even in such close proximity to the White House.

Arriving in D.C. for the first time since its 2000 inception in Rome, the three-week celebration of WorldPride coincided with the city’s 50th anniversary of its first Pride celebration held outside Deacon Maccubbin’s gay bookstore, Lambda Rising, in 1975. A

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