As always, Capitol Pride in Washington DC was a festive event with hundreds of thousands showing up. Although many consider DC a safe haven, the hateful, genocidal politics spreading elsewhere in the US cast a shadow over the event
As in the past two years, Fundamentalist, probably Christian nationalist street preachers set up in a prime spot at Connecticut Ave S side of Dupont Circle. Again as before, they were jeered and shouted down, totally neutralized in DC. When their followers pack a school board in rural Florida or Texas it’s not so easy to halt their attack.
