In an uneasy climate, diverse pride groups converge on DC with differing interests but common goals

Miranda, who is Puerto Rican, said immigrant families are being separated and the LGBTQ community targeted. After years of progress, those efforts are being eroded and ‘‘fundamental rights challenged and taken away,’’ he said. “It’s a reminder of how much work we still have ahead and of how we must work in an intersectional way.’’

Miranda urged Pride events to have direct calls to action and take a more political approach this year, including by looking to the 2026 elections.

Susan Appleton, professor of women, gender. and sexuality studies at the Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, said the nation’s culture and society, ‘‘including law,’’ have always regulated gender, race and other identities. But, she said, “I think we’re in a very unusual time when the targets have become very explicit and when for many years we haven’t seen the lack of empathy that we see now.’’

‘‘But I do think it’s encouraging to me to see that there is a vigorous resistance,” she said. “I don’t know whether it will accomplish anything, but I think it is important to make sure that all voices are heard.’’

That people are facing multiple grievances, she said, now shows ‘‘it’s not sufficient to look at race alone or gender alone or sexuality alone but all those factors.’’ They intersect and “create unique vectors of oppression.’’

People at the intersections between the Latino community and immigrant communities ‘‘face attacks from all sides,’’ said Dee Tum-Monge, a board member for the Latinx History Project, the steering organization for Latinx Pride. World Pride is aiming ‘‘to create spaces focused around community care and political organizing while still celebrating our joy,’’ they say.