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Left Furious After Kennedy Center Ditches LGBT ‘Pride Month’ Events On Trump Order

Charlie Kirk Staff

05/02/2025

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Left Furious After Kennedy Center Ditches LGBT ‘Pride Month’ Events On Trump Order

The Kennedy Center has axed LGBTQ pride events, and liberals are furious.

The Center was scheduled to host the “Tapestry of Pride” this summer to coincide with the biennial World Pride festival, but it has been quietly canceled, The Associated Press reported.

“They went from very eager to host to nothing,” Michael Roest, founder and director of the International Pride Orchestra, said to the Associated Press. “We have not since heard a word from anybody at the Kennedy Center, but that’s not going to stop us.”

He and others have moved their performances to other venues, and he referred to the Kennedy Center as “a hostile performance space.”

Event planner Monica Alford said that the Kennedy Center canceling the events does the “community a disservice” – “not just the queer community,” she said, “but the entire community.”

“We are a resilient community, and we have found other avenues to celebrate,” June Crenshaw, deputy director of Washington’s Capital Pride Alliance, said. “We are finding another path to the celebration … but the fact that we have to maneuver in this way is disappointing.

In February, President Donald Trump announced that he had gotten rid of the Board of Trustees for the Kennedy Center and was appointing new people to the board.

“At my direction, we are going to make the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., GREAT AGAIN. I have decided to immediately terminate multiple individuals from the Board of Trustees, including the Chairman, who do not share our Vision for a Golden Age in Arts and Culture. We will soon announce a new Board, with an amazing Chairman, DONALD J. TRUMP! Just last year, the Kennedy Center featured Drag Shows specifically targeting our youth — THIS WILL STOP. The Kennedy Center is an American Jewel, and must reflect the brightest STARS on its stage from all across our Nation. For the Kennedy Center, THE BEST IS YET TO COME!” the president said.

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Charlie Kirk is the Founder and President of Turning Point USA, a national student movement dedicated to empowering young people to promote the principles of free markets and limited government.

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