"World Pride Day" Attendance Plummets, With the Biennial Groomer Convention Seeing Only One-Third of the Expected Weirdoes

So close to Pride Month, World Pride Day?

SO CLOSE TO PRIDE MONTH?!?!

They're pretty sure they know the reason for lack of interest: Foreign gays and trannies are just so a-scared of the Trump Menace that they won't even travel to America.

Win-fucking-win if you ask me.

'Not just a party:' World Pride celebrations end with defiant politics on display

The celebrants held signs declaring "Fight back," "Gay is good," "Ban bombs not bathrooms" and "We will not be erased."

By Associated Press

After the raucous rainbow-hued festivities of Saturday's parade, the final day of World Pride 2025 in the nation's capital kicked off on a more downbeat note.

Thousands gathered under gray skies Sunday morning at the Lincoln Memorial for a rally and protest march, as the community gathers its strength for a looming fight under President Donald Trump's second administration.

"This is not just a party," Ashley Smith, board president of Capital Pride Alliance. "This is a rally for our lives."

Smith acknowledged that international attendance numbers for the bi-annual World Pride were measurably down, with many potential attendees avoiding travel to the U.S. due to either fear of harassment or in protest of Trump's policies.

"That should disturb us and mobilize us," Smith said.

How about mobilizing your asses back overseas?

Protesters cheered on LGBTQ+ activists taking the stage while waving both traditional Pride flags and flags representing transgender, bisexual, intersex and other communities. Many had rainbow glitter and rhinestones adorning their faces. They held signs declaring "Fight back," "Gay is good," "Ban bombs not bathrooms" and "We will not be erased."

Trump's campaign against transgender protections and oft-stated antipathy for drag shows have set the community on edge, with some hoping to see a renewed wave of street politics in response.

"Trans people just want to be loved. Everybody wants to live their own lives and I don't understand the problem with it all," said Tyler Cargill, who came wearing an elaborate costume with a hat topped by a replica of the U.S. Capitol building.

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Reminders of the cuts to federal government programs were on full display, Sunday. 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.

The PBS logo. Perfect.

From The Post-Millennial, which, by the way, the depraved search engines seem to be programmed not to find.

eading into the final weekend, which included the Capital Pride Parade, the BBC reported that event organizers dropped their estimated crowd size to around one-third of previous estimates. Organizers had originally projected around three million visitors.

Ryan Bos, executive director of Capital Pride Alliance, told NPR, "We anticipated bookings to be much higher at this time for WorldPride and do know that the climate, the concern for folks internationally to travel to the United States is real."

Montreal-based data analyst Alice Siregar, who is transgender, had initially planned on attending the event but was concerned about traveling to the US. "It is a risk to now come over and especially as a trans woman," Siregar said.

World Pride was last held in Sydney, Australia in 2023. Monash University human rights law professor Paula Gerber, who attended both the 2023 and 2025 events, told Australia's ABC, "It couldn't be a starker contrast. Sydney was a celebration. We were really rejoicing in how far we'd come with human rights protection. Here, there's no celebration. This is a call to action. This is realisation of how quickly our rights can be wound back."

The first article had a transgender saying "Transgenders just want to be loved." This article has someone saying their "rights" are being wound back.

I think that's telling. They believe they have a "right" to be "loved," and celebrated, and affirmed.

Obviously, there is no such "right." They have hijacked western governments to use government force to compel people to "love" them, and people have had enough.

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