and around the country, with nighttime live drag shows in the space. The Washington Blade and Dupont Underground are showcasing a new exhibit on the history and power of drag in D.C. June 4-27: DC’s Royals / a Dupont Underground exhibit on drag history (in-person)
There will be arts markets, DJ sets, drag yoga and Zumba, and a voguing class. Check out this month’s programming:Ĭurated by Pussy Noir, Don Burke, and JaxKnife Complex, Millennium Stage Summer at the Kennedy Center’s REACH is hosting a festival celebrating D.C.’s legendary drag community. We can actually celebrate face-to-face! (For those not fully vaccinated, mask up and social distance.) There are still plenty of virtual events if you are not yet comfortable in crowds. Thanks to COVID-19 vaccinations and new government rules, Pride looks a lot different this year. But the group’s Instagram page says to “hold tight” because information is forthcoming. The annual Capital Pride parade is June 12 from 3 p.m. So don’t wait to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community. Rivera said police felt they had an "adequate amount of resources on the ground, which is why we were able to respond so quickly.Happy Pride! The first weekend of June is upon us, and it features plenty of Pride Month events. "We're very focused on wanting to make sure we continue to have a great event for the rest of the weekend." He said the group spends extensive time planning security procedures. "We cannot allow this incident, until we know all the facts of it, we cannot allow this incident to ruin the pride celebration going on this weekend," Smith said. Ashley Smith, the president of Capital Pride Alliance, which puts on the event, said he saw people running toward him from Dupont Circle. She ran down the block and was pushed into a restaurant, where she went into a bathroom with a group of fellow revellers. "Everything fell and everyone said 'run!,"' said Hernandez, of Falls Church, Virginia. Mayor Muriel Bowser tweeted that she had been briefed by police and there were "no shots fired." She said fire department personnel were "on the scene to treat minor injuries / due to reports of a shooting." Elizabeth Hernandez, 19, was among the thousands celebrating LGBTQ pride in the city when she said she heard "pop, pop" and suddenly barricades were being tossed over and a crowd of people starting running frantically from the area. But there is NO ACTIVE SHOOTER at Dupont Circle," Kevin Donahue, the deputy mayor for public safety, said in a tweet posted shortly after the incident.
There are injuries from people running from what they thought were gunshots. "There is NO Active Shooter at Dupont Circle. City officials said no shots were fired on Saturday evening. The man was taken into custody and is facing a gun possession charge, Rivera said. "As the officers were going to the scene, there was a crowd of people going away from it and some of the individuals in the crowd said there was a man with a gun and that someone had fired a shot," said Guillermo Rivera, a commander with the Metropolitan Police Department. Police in Washington DC said some who fled had minor injuries and seven were taken to hospitals.
A panic caused by a mistaken belief a gun had been fired during a pride parade in the US capital sent people running through the streets, authorities say.