00:00At a patriotic concert before World Pride festivities in Washington, D.C.,
00:06legendary drag queen Peaches Christ paraphrased famous American writer Mark Twain.
00:11Patriotism means, I'll get this right, loving your country all of the time and your government when it deserves it.
00:22The International Pride Orchestra had originally been in talks to play the Kennedy Center,
00:27the most prestigious venue in the United States, but those plans were dashed after President Donald Trump took office.
00:34As part of his campaign to dismantle diversity programs and remove protections for the LGBTQ community,
00:40Trump set his sights on the venue, appointing himself as its chairman and vowing to reshape it to fit his political agenda.
00:48Since then, ticket sales at the Kennedy Center have fallen precipitously, down 50 percent from a year ago.
00:55Music has always been political. Art is political.
00:58And you hear it in history that people have used art to send a message to the higher powers that, you know,
01:04we are not going to stand for what you are trying to do to us.
01:06It was Stonewall years ago. It was act up, fight AIDS later than that.
01:11It's time to make these statements again, I think.
01:14Even though much of Washington is festooned with rainbow flags,
01:18the attacks from the Trump administration have cast a pall over the celebrations.
01:23In the past few months, the Trump administration has worked to ban transgender people from serving in the military,
01:29planned the renaming of a Navy ship honoring gay veteran Harvey Milk,
01:34and abandoned federal recognition of June Pride Month.
01:37Now, as Washingtonians celebrate World Pride, they find themselves barred from DuPont Circle,
01:43the park at the epicenter of the city's LGBTQ neighborhood.
01:47The National Park Service has fenced it off for the weekend despite community backlash,
01:52citing the need to deter potential violence.
01:55The National Park Service has helped us to report increases that in the time of the class of the Alpha Michael
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