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Washington – You’ve heard of double. Kenya Hutton is a “trifer”.

His parents are immigrants, he is black and he is a gay – a moment in history when zeal against immigrants, racism and anti-lgbtq feelings of game and reinforce the administrative policy.

Hutton is hard.

As the members of Black and Latino LGBTQ and transgender and other communities come to the nation’s capital World pride In the coming days, many are under siege from multiple directions thanks to multiple identities. They will maintain individualized programs and celebrations that suffocate in World’s pride.

Their mutual danger will be a combination of topics. Celebrations, music, food, parades, pigs and parties will take place on the background of human rights and political strategies and, in some cases, how to survive in the climate that contains many people who do not want them around.

“I always tell people that DC is a perfect place for world pride,” Hutton said. “We have so many different identity prides here in DC, from black pride to trans pride API Pride, Latinx pride, military pride, women’s pride, silver pride, we have so many different groups of people who have their own pride celebration. “

Frankie Miranda, the first Open Gay president and the executive director of the Hispanic Federation, says Imigrants and LGBTQ + communities for months “in the regime of the triage” How to defend the attack Many members of our community from different sides. “

Miranda, which is Puerto Rican, said that immigrant families separate the goal of the LGBTQ target. After many years of progress, these efforts are eroded and “fundamental rights caused and taken away,” he said. “It’s a reminder of how much deeds we still have ahead and how we have to work in an intersexonial way.”

Miranda called for pride events to have direct calls to action and this year to take more political approaches, including looking at the 2026 elections. Years.

Susan Appleton, Professor of Women, Spol. and Sexuality studies at Legal School from the University of Washington in St. Louisu, she said in a nation of cultures and society, “including the law,” They always regulated gender, race and other identity. But she said, “I think we’re in very unusual time when the goals have become very explicit and when we haven’t seen the lack of empathy for many years to see.”

“But I think it’s encouraging to see that there is strong resistance,” she said. “I don’t know if he will achieve anything, but I think it’s important to make sure all the votes are heard.”

To face more complaints, she said, now shows “that it is not enough to watch the race alone or gender alone or just sexuality, but all these factors.” Intersect and “create unique oppression vectors.”

People at the intersections between the Latin community and the immigrant community “from all sides,” said Dee Tum-Monge, member of the Latinx history management, a Latinx Pride Management Organization. The world’s pride goes “by creating spaces focused on community care and political organization, and we are still celebrating our joy,” they say.

Focus, Tum-Monge said, only moves from just ballot and federal action to work that participants can do at local levels. In the middle of the mounting threats of immigrants and community LGBTQ +, Tum-Monge said that the organizers are especially concerned about security and will watch international participants who can face obstacles traveling.

Although official events are now being kicked, programs that began to suggest how many diverse activities will be. The scene last week was almost fondly fondly because people walked the national shopping center in terms of capital, by reading the messages about some of the hundreds of covers that made transgender people from all over the country.

The “Freedom for” Jorgan’s project was there to raise awareness of the transgender community, which is under fire President Donald Trump. The messages moved from defiance to hope for acceptance. “I hope there are days when you fall in love with alive,” said one. And in another: “There is a country I see where the kids should be free.”

Abdool Corlette, Brenda Head for U.S. Trade Unions of Civil Freedoms and Co-Creator Project, said the message required to be sent.

“We see each other through the board trying to delete the trans non-people from all public lives,” Corlette said. “And we knew we had to take over space. We should have memorized the stories of people and do it in the literal yard of the capital.”

Gillian Branstetter, his competition and a communication strategist on the ACLU’s Women’s project, said shares such as the Executive Order of the Republic President Yes affects military personnel are abstract for some, but have real influences in the Transwender Community in which health care is threatened together with job loss and threats to violence.

The scene was all but a solemn 3 miles north of the mall, within the student center at Howard University, one of the famous historically black nations. She was solemn and bright, filled with joy and music as members of different groups – called houses – are competing in the events involving fashion modeling and dance in the du circle in Slay Ball.

One participant, John Smith III (the stage names of the Chetrey Icon), said the balls were modeled on the circuit du Soleil and refer to the community and secure spaces. Iran Paylor (Stage name Bang Garcon) said that houses were placed by the LGBTQ communities to give secure spaces to others alienated from their families and violated within the black community when they came out.

DC Black Pride began in 1975. in the club house, they founded members of the LGBTQ City Community. Over the years, the event around the memory became a tradition. Team House closed in 1990. years, but three community members held a tradition. The first black gay and lesbian pride event was held on 25. May 1991. years.

Hutton is the President and Executive Director of the Center for Black Capital, founded in 1999. year as a way to gather all the movements of black prides that were created on the country in Washington. There are 54 and 12 international in the United States, he said.

As a black gay man, Hutton was already battle on more than one front. There is now an additional category for worry.

“I’m also a child of immigrants, just to add it to my intersection,” he said. “I always pay attention to immigration conversations. It is very difficult to navigate the world.”

But he said, his responsibility is to use the approach that developed over the years to create safe spaces. “So, although it’s hard to move and listen to the news every day, I also understand that I got this task.”

The job was harded this year. Sponsors have pulled out the celebrations and knows that some international travelers do not come for fear of having difficulty implementing the law.

Hutton understands why various groups want individual activities; One version will not receive all the audience. But the cornerstone of Black Pride is a community. “We have the opportunity to indeed show all these communities world,” he said.

In the end he said, he wants one message to be an interest after the gathering of the communities: “We don’t go anywhere.”

“We’ll keep pushing forward, not just for us in America,” Hutton said. “As someone told me, when America sneezes, the world catches a cold. So we have to make sure America doesn’t catch a cold.”