International Pride Orchestra plays outside DC in rebuff to Trump snub at Kennedy Center
by Guardian staff and agency from US news | The Guardian on (#6XT50)
LGBTQ+ ensemble was to appear at performing arts center but moved to Maryland after president reorganized venue
An event by the International Pride Orchestra this week swung from classical Gershwin favorites to choral patriotism to high drag in a rebuff to Donald Trump's takeover of the Kennedy Center and its subsequent snub of the LBGTQ+ ensemble.
The spirited celebration of WorldPride, the peripatetic biennial international festival in support of LGBTQ+ rights which kicks off this month and is taking place in Washington DC, was staged instead at the Strathmore Music Center in Maryland, just north of the capital.
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