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An event at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts featuring the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, D.C., and the National Symphony Orchestra has been canceled, the choral group said. It's the latest performance that has been canceled since President Donald Trump purged the arts organization's Board of Trustees and appointed himself its chairman this month.

In a statement, the chorus says it’s “deeply disappointed” by the news. “We believe in the power of music to educate and uplift, to foster love, understanding, and community, and we regret that this opportunity has been taken away.” The Kennedy Center has seen a raft of cancellations since President Trump took over the arts center last week a

A man accused of multiple child sex offences allegedly raped a 12-year-old boy and smoked a bong with him at his flat, a trial has heard. Stephen Ireland, 40, who co-founded Pride in Surrey in 2018, is facing 35 charges while his flatmate David Sutton, 27, a volunteer with the organisation, is accused of 20 offences. The pair targeted "children for their sexual proclivities", Guildford Crown Court was told. The defendants have denied all the charges and jurors were told they would argue the allegations were ill-founded and untrue. Mr Ireland is alleged to have met a 12-year-old boy at...

Laura Loomer @LauraLoomer Rebecca Lobach, the Biden aid who was flying the helicopter that flew into the American Airlines passenger jet in DC this week, attended PRIDE events. The statement her family released about her said she was a “partner”.

I only ask because he allowed several of his departments to proclaim June as "pride month" in his last administration, most notably the State Department. It will be a massive disappointment if he does. I'll trust that the principles of Project 2025 will be his guide. ;)

Under Biden, government buildings flew pride and BLM flags alongside Old Glory.. The Trump State Department implemented a landmark "One Flag Policy" policy on Monday, barring U.S. outposts at home and abroad from flying any other flag but the Stars and Stripes. The newly issued order, a copy of which was obtained by the Washington Free Beacon, effectively bans American facilities from displaying flags affiliated with left-wing movements, including the pride and Black Lives Matter flags that flew over U.S. government buildings under Biden. "Starting immediately, only the United States of America flag is authorized to be flown or displayed...

A mayor of a township in Ontario, Canada, reportedly had his personal bank account garnished after he refused to pay a $5,000 fine after a tribunal ruled he had discriminated against an LGBTQ group. On November 20, the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario ruled that the township of Emo and its mayor, Harold McQuaker, 77, had discriminated against an LGBTQ group, under the Ontario Human Rights Code, by denying its request to proclaim June as Pride Month. Borderland Pride had requested Emo make the Pride Month declaration and requested the township fly a "LGBTQ2" flag, despite Emo not having an...

For the first time in history, the White House displayed the AIDS Memorial Quilt on the South Lawn on Sunday, December 1 — marking an extraordinary and emotional World AIDS Day ceremony. The event, led by President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden, was both a celebration of progress in the fight against HIV and AIDS and a sobering reminder of the epidemic’s human toll. For some in attendance, it was also a moment of grief as the specter of President-elect Donald Trump’s impending administration loomed large, threatening to undo years of progress in LGBTQ+ equality and public health...

<p>FORT MYERS, Fla. — Target has failed to persuade a judge in Florida to dismiss a lawsuit that accused the retailer of deceiving shareholders after its sales of LGBTQ-themed merchandise for Pride Month sparked a backlash and a customer boycott.</p>

Colorado’s new LGBTQ social studies standards, which include first grade lessons on LGBTQ history, transgenderism, and the rainbow flag, is age-inappropriate and pushes a radical agenda, some parents in the state complain. “I don’t want my first grader learning anything about LGBTQ issues at all in school,” a Colorado father of a first grader who asked to remain anonymous told The Daily Signal.

The home improvement retailer Lowe's has become the latest brand to scrap its support for Pride events and other diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) schemes in the face of consumer boycotts. Lowe's will stop cooperating with the Human Rights Campaign, a major LGBTQ group, and will no longer separate employees into so-called 'resource groups' based on race, religion or sexual identities, according to an internal memo. The company will also stop sponsoring parades, festivals, or fairs, and will instead focus on events related to its business, such as affordable housing and skilled trades education, says the memo. In recent weeks,...

"This is France!" France unveiled a decidedly family-unfriendly spectacle last Saturday for over 28.6 million viewers worldwide as the four-hour opening ceremony for the 2024 Olympics, which unfolded along a 4.5 mile stretch of the River Seine in Paris, turned into the world’s most-watched Pride Parade.Because Western cultural elites today are overwhelmingly cultural Marxists, the organizers of the 2800-year-old athletic competition decided to jettison any connection with sports, athletic excellence, or national pride, and instead promote the normalization of sexual perversion, gender ideology, and anti-Christian bigotry.As always with Pride parades, the celebration of sexual libertinism, masked as “love” and “tolerance,”...

Whistleblowers from Disney have provided O’Keefe Media Group with Disney’s internal communications, including group chats, bulletin boards, the company’s employee roster and employee websites, and the company’s Slack channel. “What we’ve discovered is so shocking that it makes the Disney Tapes series look like child’s play,” says James O’Keefe, founder of O’Keefe Meda Group. As The Gateway Pundit reported earlier this month, O’Keefe Media Group revealed in part three of the Disney Tapes series that Disney’s Creative Marketing Director by day and professional drag queen by night, Amit “Genie” Gurnani, revealed Disney’s “unspoken” LGBTQ agenda for children. This only scratched...

A Pennsylvania community is mourning transgender teen Pauly Likens, 14, whose dismembered body was found at the end of Pride month. On June 25, the Sharon Police Department received a report that Likens had been missing since June 22, a news release from the Mercer County Coroner states. That same day, the Hermitage Police Department was dispatched to a nearby lake, where they found dismembered human remains recovered in and around the water, officials stated. Likens' remains were recovered in the area surrounding Shenango River Lake over the following week, according to state police. An autopsy revealed that the cause...

Living Lutheran is the official and primary publication of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). Founded in 1831, it had a monthly circulation of over 133,000 households in 50 countries, sharing news of the denomination’s activities, institutions, congregations, and synods in paper distribution before going fully digital in 2024. They recently ran a glowing feature of The Table church in Nashville, TN. Led by ‘pastor’ Dawn Bennet, the magazine praises her for her work in ministering to the LGBTQ community, saying in part: The Table is the first ELCA congregation in the Southeastern Synod with the specific goal of...

On the final day of Pride month, anti-Israel agitators disrupted the New York Pride parade by blocking the route and vandalizing and destroying floats. Video posted on social media shows a group of anti-Israel agitators sitting in the street with posters and shouting "Free Palestine" and "From the sea to the river, Palestine will be free." "It is certainly a more active presence this year in terms of protest at Pride events," Sandra Pérez, the executive director of NYC Pride told the Associated Press. "But we were born out of a protest." Another video shows anti-Israel protesters vandalizing floats and...

Chicago's annual Pride parade took place on Sunday and the event appeared to go smoothly enough. Authorities had been wary of potentially violent disruptions, so the parade route was shorter than in previous years with fewer floats and a large police presence. The peaceful portion of the proceedings was not destined to last, however. Once the parade was over, hundreds of participants and observers stuck around well into the night, drinking, singing, and dancing. Then fights began to break out. When the police attempted to break up the altercations, the revelers attacked the CPD cops. In the end, more than...

"...Pride parades man right there's kids 0:11 around and then there's like um people 0:14 walking around you know nude yeah so this journalist a real he's a real journalist he's out there at one of these parades he's asking these other people who's attending is this okay so he's asking them to explain if this..."

Transgender and nonbinary middle-distance runner Nikki Hiltz ran the second fastest time ever of any American in the women’s 1500-meter race at the U.S. Olympic Trials Sunday, qualifying for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. Hiltz, who uses they/them pronouns, charged ahead of Elle St. Pierre and Emily Mackay in the final stretch of the race, finishing with a time of 3:55:33, a trials record. All of the top eight finishers set a new personal best time, according to OutSports. Paris will mark Hiltz’s Olympic debut. In a post-race interview with NBC Sports, Hiltz, 29, said the race had significance...

A “Pride” event in New York City devolved into an all-out brawl Sunday night, prompting police to shut down a local park. Video from the event shows multiple people involved in a fist fight, beginning with several women tackling one another to the ground and yanking on one another’s hair. Several men quickly joined the melee, throwing haymakers and kicking one another on the ground. At the same time, multiple pro-Palestine protesters took to the streets to block the “Pride” parade, destroying several floats in the process. According to the New York Post, 22 people were arrested during the protest,...