Organizers of D.C.’s annual LGBTQ Black Satisfaction celebration introduced at a Jan. 29 ‘Cocktails for a Trigger’ fundraising occasion that the theme for this 12 months’s celebration is “Black Satisfaction is Freedom.”
Like previous years, this 12 months’s Black Satisfaction will happen throughout Memorial Day weekend from Could 23-26 and shall be an official occasion of World Satisfaction, which D.C. is internet hosting this 12 months.
Simply over 100 folks turned out for the theme announcement occasion on the Metropolis Membership of D.C., which offered the cocktail lounge assembly house freed from cost and was donating a share of its drink gross sales to Black Satisfaction, in response to Black Satisfaction organizer Kenya Hutton.
Hutton, who serves as CEO and president of the Middle for Black Fairness, a D.C.-based LGBTQ advocacy group that organizes Black Satisfaction, stated the theme was chosen partly primarily based on the problems the LGBTQ group is dealing with in 2025.
“Simply taking a look at how issues are going on the earth proper now, it appears that evidently our protected areas are in jeopardy,” Hutton instructed the Washington Blade in recounting what he stated on the Jan. 29 occasion.
“And with the assaults which are taking place on the Black group and Black LGBTQ communities, particularly on our trans group, popping out with the theme of Black Satisfaction is Freedom is kind of a declaration,” he stated.
“It’s declaring that we’re going to proceed being free, we’re going to like how we’re freely, love who we wish freely, present how we wish to be freely,” Hutton stated. “We simply wish to be free and we’re not going again within the closet, we’re not going to enter hiding. We’re going to reside out free and out loud unapologetically,” he stated.
Hutton stated most of this 12 months’s Black Satisfaction occasions, which embrace panel discussions and workshops, will happen on the Capital Hilton Resort.
The Capital Satisfaction Alliance, which organizes most of D.C.’s LGBTQ Satisfaction occasions and is the lead organizer of this 12 months’s World Satisfaction, states on its web site that World Satisfaction occasions will happen in D.C. from Could 17 by June 8.
Among the many first of the occasions shall be D.C. Trans Satisfaction, which is scheduled to be held Could 17-18, simply forward of Black Satisfaction, which is about to be held Could 23-26.
An inventory of the World Worth occasions may be accessed at worldpridedc.org.
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