Washington – You have heard of two. Kenya Hutton is a “Tresfer”.
His parents are immigrants, he is a black man and is gay, at a time in history when anti-immigrant fervor, racism and anti-LGBTQ feelings are rampant and amplified by Trump administration policies.
Hutton is barely alone.
As members of the Black and Latin LGBTQ and the transgender and other communities come to the capital of the nation to World pride In the next few days, many are under siege from multiple directions thanks to their multiple identities. They will maintain individualized programs and celebrations that are mixed with World pride.
His mutual danger It will be a unifying theme. The celebrations, music, food, parades, plays and parties will be developed in a context of human rights and political strategies and, in some cases, discussions on how to survive in a climate that contains many people who do not want them.
“I always tell people that DC was the perfect place to have worldwide pride,” said Hutton. “We have so many different identity proud here in DC, from black pride to trans pride and Api Pride, Latinx pride, military pride, pride of women, pride of silver, we have so many different groups of people who have their own celebration of pride. “
Frankie Miranda, the first president and openly Gay CEO of the Hispanic Federation, says that immigrants and the LGBTQ+ community have been “in triage mode for months” while defending “a multi -part attack against many members of our community from different sides.”
Miranda, who is Puerto Rican, said immigrant families are being separated and the LGBTQ community directed. After years of progress, those efforts are being eroded and “fundamental rights challenged and removed,” he said. “It is a reminder of how much work we still have and how we should work intersectingly.”
Miranda urged pride events to have direct calls to action and adopt a more political approach this year, even looking at the 2026 elections.
Susan Appleton, women’s teacher. and sexuality studies at the Law Faculty of the University of Washington in St. Louis, said the culture and society of the Nation, “including law”, He has always regulated gender, race and other identities. But, he said, “I think we are at a very unusual moment when the objectives have become very explicit and when for many years we have not seen the lack of empathy we see now.”
“But I think it’s encouraging to see that there is vigorous resistance,” he said. “I don’t know if it will achieve something, but I think it is important to make sure all the voices are heard.”
That people face multiple complaints, he said, now shows “it is not enough to look at the breed alone or gender alone or sexuality alone, but all those factors.” They cross and “create unique vectors of oppression.”
People at the intersections between the Latin community and the communities of immigrants “face attacks from all parties,” said Dee Tum-Monge, a member of the Latin History Project Board, the Latinx Directorate Organization for Latinx Pride. World Pride aims to “create spaces focused on community care and political organization while celebrating our joy,” they say.
The approach, said Tum-Monge, is moving away from just voting and the federal action for work that attendees can do locally. Amid increasing threats to immigrants and the LGBTQ+community, Tum-Monge said the organizers are particularly concerned about security and will be observing international participants who may face obstacles that travel.
Although official events are starting now, the programs that have begun suggest how diverse activities will be activities. The scene last week was almost solemn when people walked through the National Shopping Center in view of the Capitol, reading messages in some of the hundreds of mats made by transgender people throughout the country.
The “Freedom to be” project project was there to raise awareness about the transgender community, which has been under fire since President Donald Trump. The messages varied from the challenge to the hopes of acceptance. “I hope there are days when you fall in love with being alive,” said one. And on another: “There is a land that I see where children must be free.”
Abdool Corlette, brand head of the American Union of Civil Liberties and Cooking of the project, said it was necessary to send a message.
“We are generally seeing an attempt to erase trans people from a whole public life,” said Corlette. “And we knew we need to take space. We needed to commemorate people’s stories and do it in the literal backyard of the Capitol.”
Gillian Branstetter, his cooker and communications strategist in the ACLU women’s project, said actions such as the Executive Order of the Republican President that It affects military personnel They are abstract for some but have real impacts on the transgender community where medical care is threatened, together with Loss of jobs and threats of violence.
The scene was anything but solemn to 3 miles north of the mall, within the Student Center of Howard University, one of the recognized historically black universities of the nation. He was festive and brilliant, full of joy and shouts of breath and music, since the members of several groups, called houses, competed in events that included fashion and dance modeling at the Cirque du Slay Ball.
An assistant, John Smith III (Name of Iconfatty Prodigy scenario), said the balls are modeled in Cirque du Soleil and are community and insurance spaces. Iran Paylor (artistic name of Bang Garcon) said the houses are places established by LGBTQ communities to give safe spaces to others separated from their families and sentenced to ostracism within the black community when they left.
DC Black Pride began in 1975 at Casa Club, founded by members of the city’s LGBTQ community. Over the years, an event around the Fallen Day became a tradition. The Club House closed in 1990, but three members of the community maintained the tradition. The first Gay and Lesbiano Negro pride event was held on May 25, 1991.
Hutton is the president and CEO of the Black Equity Center, founded in 1999 as a way of gathering all the black pride movements that were being created throughout the country after the model in Washington. There are 54 in the United States and 12 internationally, he said.
As a black gay man, Hutton already had battles on multiple fronts. Now there is an additional category to worry about.
“I am also the son of immigrants, just to add that in addition to my intersections,” he said. “I am always paying attention to immigration conversations. It is very difficult to navigate the world at this time.”
But, he said, his responsibility is to use the access he has developed over the years to create safe spaces. “So, although it is difficult to navigate and listen to the news every day, I also understand that they have given me this task.”
Work has been hard this year. The sponsors have retired from the celebrations and he knows that some international travelers do not come for fear that they have difficulties with the police.
Hutton understands why several groups want individual activities; A version will not accommodate all audiences. But the cornerstone of black pride is the community. “We have the opportunity to really show all these communities to the world,” he said.
In the end, he said, he wants a message to resonate after the meeting of communities: “We are not going anywhere.”
“We will continue to drive our rights forward, not only for us in the United States,” said Hutton. “As someone told me, when the United States sneezes, the world makes a cold. So we have to make sure that the United States does not stand out.”
