It was a momentous 12 months in LGBTQ information. With the backdrop of a consequential election looming, LGBTQ life within the D.C. area flourished.
(Washington Blade photographs by Michael Key)
Activists stage a rally in entrance of the Heritage Basis on Jan. 1 to convey consciousness to Undertaking 2025.Hennessey performs at Black Friday at As You Are on Jan. 5.Mid-Atlantic Leather-based Weekend brings leather-based fanatics from throughout the nation to D.C. in January. Sasha Adams Sanchez performs on the Freddie’s Follies drag present at Freddie’s Seaside Bar in Arlington, Va. on Jan. 20.Patrons take pleasure in an evening out at Thurst Lounge on Feb. 3.The 2024 Cupid’s Undie Run is held at The Wharf on Feb. 17.Mistress Isabelle Brooks of RuPaul’s Drag Race performs at ‘Drag Me to the Disco’ on the Howard Theatre on March 2.JR.’s annual Bonnet Ball is held on March 31.Exhibitors present their wares on the Nationwide Hashish Competition on the RFK Stadium grounds on April 20.The Mr./Miss/Mx. Capital Pleasure Pageant is held on April 26 at Penn Social.The Style of Level fundraiser for the Level Basis is held at Room & Board on Could 2.Freddie Lutz passes out indicators to supporters exterior of Freddie’s Seaside Bar on Could 4. The ‘Love Fest’ counter-demonstration exterior of the Arlington, Va. homosexual bar is in response to a gaggle of anti-LGBTQ protestors exterior the institution.‘I Am Your Mom’ drag present is carried out at Purple Bear Brewing on Could 12.Vice President Kamala Harris speaks with members of employees on the Eisenhower Government Workplace Constructing.Billy Porter is the headline performer at D.C. Black Pleasure on Could 25. Lorenzo Corridor of WUSA9 emcees on the Pleasure Honors on Could 31.The Capital Pleasure Parade is held on June 8.Keke Palmer performs on the Capital Pleasure Competition and Live performance on June 9.The Washington Blade holds Pleasure on the Pier at The Wharf on June 9.
Baltimore Pleasure is held on June 15.
The Homosexual Males’s Refrain of Washington carry out “Portraits” on the Kennedy Middle in June.Frederick Pleasure is held on June 22.
Fredericksburg Pleasure is held on June 29.
Hagerstown Pleasure is held on July 13.
The Republican Nationwide Conference is held in Milwaukee, Wis. in July.
Former President Donald Trump attends the Republican Nationwide Conference in Milwaukee, Wis. on July 17. The SMYAL for Summer season fundraiser was held on July 25. Noah Van Gilder is topped the winner of the NJB+ Pageant on Aug. 4.President Joe Biden and Christopher Kane within the Oval Workplace on Aug. 12, 2024.President Joe Biden speaks on the Democratic Nationwide Conference in Chicago on Aug. 19.Maryland Gov. Wes Moore attends the Democratic Nationwide Conference in Chicago on Aug. 19.Vice President Kamala Harris speaks on the 2024 Democratic Nationwide Conference in Chicago on August 22.Human Rights Marketing campaign President Kelley Robinson speaks on the HRC Nationwide Dinner on Sept. 9.Virginia Pridefest was held in Richmond, Va. on Sept. 14.Nationwide LGBTQ Activity Power Motion Fund President Kierra Johnson speaks on the group’s D.C. Board cocktail reception on Sept. 20.D.C. Council member Robert White speaks on the Washington Blade’s candidate discussion board at Crush on Sept. 24.Dominique Jackson, star of ‘Pose’ on FX, leads the ‘Kunty’ dance celebration at Bunker on Oct. 5.Winchester Pleasure is held on the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley in Winchester, Va. on Oct. 5.Kidd O’Shea of ‘Good Morning Washington’ is voted Finest Native TV/Radio Character within the Washington Blade’s Better of LGBTQ D.C. readers’ ballot.Franklin County Pleasure is held on the campus of Wilson Faculty in Chambersburg, Pa. on Oct. 13.The Washington Blade holds its Better of LGBTQ DC Celebration at Crush on Oct. 17.The Excessive Heel Race is held on seventeenth Avenue, N.W. on Oct. 29. Vice President Kamala Harris provides her concession speech at Howard College on Nov. 6.The Pleasure Reveal celebration is held at The Schuyler at The Hamilton Resort on Nov. 14.Citrine performs at a ‘Depraved’-themed present at JR.’s Bar on Nov. 23.Panels of the NAMES Undertaking AIDS Memorial Quilt are placed on show on the South Garden of the White Home for World AIDS Day on Dec. 1.Activists collect exterior of america Supreme Court docket on Dec. 4 throughout oral arguments within the U.S. v. Skrmetti case.The Homosexual Males’s Refrain of Washington carry out ‘The Vacation Present’ at Howard Theatre in December.Whitman-Walker Well being holds the thirty eighth annual Stroll to Finish HIV at Anacostia Park on Dec. 7.D.C. Council member Zachary Parker speaks on the Washington Blade’s post-election LGBTQ neighborhood discussion board on Dec. 12.
