We’re supposed to host WorldPride in DC this summer. WorldPride! Asking queer people all over the world to travel…here?! Absolutely not. Trans people cannot do so, and any one else who maybe technically can should not risk it. - ThreadSky

ahab.bsky.social • 39 days ago

We’re supposed to host WorldPride in DC this summer. WorldPride! Asking queer people all over the world to travel…here?! Absolutely not. Trans people cannot do so, and any one else who maybe technically can should not risk it.

Reposted from Faine Greenwood

the entire U.S. tourism industry dependent on international travelers is in for a very shitty summer

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rosemyne.xyz•39 days ago

Especially since the government will absolutely be using this event to restrict LGBTQ+ rights. Outside of the threat that traveling to the U.S. as a queer person right now poses, giving them an excuse to say it's foreign agitators instead of American citizens will only fuel the crackdown.

mybookstand.bsky.social•39 days ago

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/03/supreme-court-could-soon-overturn-conversion-therapy-bans-in-28-states/?utm_content=buffer15cfa&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_campaign=bluesky

unknownneo.bsky.social•39 days ago

Did anyone say to do it in Canada?

ahab.bsky.social•39 days ago

Feel free to contact the organizing committee! Maybe if enough of us do they’ll wake up?

unknownneo.bsky.social•38 days ago

Maybe so.

beu4ic.bsky.social•39 days ago

That’s the point. They only want “their kind of people” to travel here. See: Florida under desantis’s autocratic rule.

ahab.bsky.social•39 days ago

I…know? I’m talking about the queer people ORGANIZING WP, who don’t seem to have noticed at all what is going.

beu4ic.bsky.social•39 days ago

Oh oh I’m sorry I understand your point now. Truly apologize.

mlex.bsky.social•39 days ago

hold it somewhere else, in the streets, with a referendum on queer rights. Paris?

ahab.bsky.social•39 days ago

The organizers don’t appear to have even noticed there’s an issue so I doubt anyone is working on rescheduling the entire gigantic set of events at this point…

ahab.bsky.social•39 days ago

And I haven’t seen any official discussion of this. Their instagram account is still happily putting tickets on sale.

What world are they living in, I’d like to go there.

mistresscurvy.bsky.social•39 days ago

This is further off and complicated in a different way, but we’re supposed to be co-hosting the men’s World Cup with Canada and Mexico in a year! How the fuck is THAT going to go

ahab.bsky.social•39 days ago

Yeah for real! Like I was assuming there weren’t trans players in the MWC (that I know of?) but just the cooperation and border-crossing…and then after that of course the Olympics, even further off. Extremely not great Bob to now be one of the disfavored nations.

mistresscurvy.bsky.social•39 days ago

Yeah it’s much more about fans coming from countries that increase likelihood of harassment etc etc etc but it’s still not good!

ahab.bsky.social•39 days ago

Right now I’m like uhhhhh no one should go through customs even with solid paperwork so definitely not feeling good about it

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