Shakira performance for World Pride opening concert abruptly canceled due to technical issues
One day before the kickoff concert for World Pride 2025 in the nation's capital, headlining performer Shakira has abruptly canceled due to equipment difficulties.
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The multiplatinum singer had been scheduled to headline the opening celebrations Saturday night at Nationals Park. The reasons are apparently an extension of equipment issues related to her Thursday night concert in Boston's Fenway Park, which was also canceled hours before it was set to begin. A Friday night concert at Fenway for country star Jason Aldean was also canceled.
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The Alliance noted that the was still on for opening weekend, and said the kickoff ceremony would be relocated and reorganized.
The cancellation presents a further challenge for the Alliance, but at least a nonpolitical one. Organizers have already said they expected international attendance to measurably suffer as a result of concern and anger in the LGBTQ+ community over President Donald Trump's policies.
Trump맥스카지노s public antipathy for trans protections and drag shows has already prompted two international LGBTQ+ organizations, Eagle Canada and the African Human Rights Coalition, to issue warnings against traveling to the U.S. at all. The primary concern is that trans or nonbinary individuals would face trouble entering the country if passport control officers enforce the administration맥스카지노s strict binary view of gender status.
Some potential international participants have this year맥스카지노s events, either out of fear of harassment or as a boycott against Trump맥스카지노s policies. But others have called for a domestic mobilization to flood the capital.
Capital Pride Alliance Executive Director Ryan Bos said that security fencing would be installed surrounding the final two-day concert and rally on a multi-block stretch of Pennsylvania Avenue.
Early hotel reservation numbers for the final World Pride weekend, June 6-8, were originally down from the previous year, according to Destination D.C., which tracks reservations.
But Destination D.C. President Elliott Ferguson told reporters on Thursday that, 맥스카지노what we맥스카지노re seeing now is a surge at the last minute, especially with the national community.맥스카지노
Ferguson speculated that concerns about international attendance had 맥스카지노galvanized the local community, the national community to want to come to the city.맥스카지노