Kennedy Center Scrubs Pride Concert From Website

Christopher Wiggins reports at The Advocate:

The Kennedy Center has quietly removed a highly anticipated National Symphony Orchestra concert celebrating LGBTQ+ Pride from its website, intensifying fears that federally affiliated cultural institutions could be the next battleground in President Donald Trump’s war on the LGBTQ+ community.

The event, “A Peacock Among Pigeons: Celebrating 50 Years of Pride,” was scheduled for May 21–22 as part of the center’s acknowledgment of WorldPride 2025 inWashington, D.C.

The timing is impossible to ignore—just days after Trump installed himself as chairman of the Kennedy Center’s board, ousted longtime president Deborah Rutter and appointed one of his most loyal right-wing operatives, Richard Grenell, who is gay, as its interim executive director. This position did not previously exist.

Read the full article. Trump has tasked Grenell with ending drag shows and “other anti-American propaganda” at the Kennedy Center.

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