1 of three | Marchers carry a satisfaction banner within the WorldPride 2025 Parade and fiftieth anniversary of the Capital Satisfaction Parade in Washington, D.C., on Saturday afternoon. Picture by Leigh Vogel/UPI | License Picture
June 7 (UPI) — 1000’s converged to have fun the fiftieth anniversary of the Capital Satisfaction Parade Saturday in Washington, D.C., amid an prolonged WorldPride LGBTQ+ celebration.
The 2-day WorldPride Music Fest and parade marked Saturday’s portion of a three-day celebration of Capital Satisfaction that concludes on Sunday.
The occasion is billed because the “world’s largest LGBTQ+” celebration and features a music competition that’s being held on three levels and options performers like Jennifer Lopez.
“Over time, your love and your assist have been a supply of power for me, and immediately I’m right here to have fun with you,” Lopez stated throughout her efficiency Friday evening on the occasion’s RFK Campus Competition Grounds.
“I am so completely satisfied to have the ability to be right here to have fun group, range, love and freedom,” Lopez informed her viewers.
Paris Hilton, Marina, Rita Ora and several other different acts additionally carried out on Friday.
Musical acts scheduled to carry out on Saturday embrace RuPaul, Troye Sivan and Rene Rapp, Sofi Tukker, Purple Disco Machineand others.
Saturday’s Capital Satisfaction Parade started at 2 p.m. EDT and lasted for six hours because it proceeded from the intersection of 14th and T Road N.W. and thru Thomas Circle earlier than turning onto Pennsylvania Avenue and concluding close to the Navy Memorial.
Spectators and guests stuffed eating places and ingesting institutions alongside the parade route.
Parade individuals included cheerleaders, a 300-member choir and volunteers holding a 1,000-foot rainbow flag.
Deacon Maccubbin, who organized the primary Capital Satisfaction Parade in 1975, served because the parade’s grand marshal. So did actresses ReneeRapp and Laverne Cox.
Singer and actress Cynthia Erivo was scheduled to headline a parade-ending live performance at third Road and Pennsylvania Avenue.
The prolonged WorldPride occasion yearly rotates amongst main world cities and acquired underway on Might 17 in Washington, D.C.
The occasion concludes on Sunday with a rally and march that begins on the Lincoln Memorial and ends on the U.S. Capitol.