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Werk for Peace protested the Trump administration by dancing through D.C.
“Dance is not only a form of artistic expression, but also a powerful form of healing,” says Firas Nasr, founding organizer of Werk for Peace. “Dance has always served as a base for the gay and trans community…. That’s why we feel boogie is such a potent mechanism for social change.”
And dance they did. Wildly. Outside the Trump International Hotel, where hundreds of LGBTQ people, many of them in town for the Task Force’s Creating Change conference, convened to protest the current administration. Werk for Peace staged the event, much as it had staged similar dances outside Vice-President Mike Pence’s D.C. residence and the Kalorama abode of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump.
More than 1,200 people came to protest. Some, like Rissy Berliner, were there to push assist against the decision-making of the Trump administration. “We’ve got to show reason in this country,” she says. “We’ve got to show the rest of the world that we have sensibility, and that we have empathy.”
“This administration has completely undone a
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“It’s not just about gays and lesbians. It’s about the communities that care about equality,” Moran said. “And, again, suburban women, youth voters — these are core constituencies of the 2024 election cycle. We don’t just have to pander and run to gays.”
Still, Moran and other event organizers said they assume Trump could secure up to 50% of gay voters in the upcoming election, without providing figures explaining their reasoning. Millions of American adults name as lesbian or gay, according to Gallup.
In a Human Rights Campaign poll conducted in August, 74% of LGBTQ voters say they plan to or are leaning toward voting for Vice President Kamala Harris, 7.5% for Trump and the remainder for third party write-ins.
Brandon Wolf, a spokesperson for the advocacy group, which has endorsed and is fundraising for Harris, denounced the Trump UNITY events and accused the former president of leading “the most anti-LGBTQ+ administration in history.”
“Some people really like proximity to power, and Donald Trump is someone who peddles authority in exchange for things constantly,” Wolf said. “It’s unfortuna
How YMCA became Donald Trump's unlikely anthem
Still confused by the sight of a 78-year-old President-elect boogying to a disco number punctuated by the words "Young man"? Well, it could be that this confusion is part of the point: one thing that amuses Donald Trump's supporters and frustrates his detractors is that he doesn't fit neatly into one box. "Trump's musical selections (and they do always seem to be his personal selections) tell us a lot about him," Professor James Garratt, the author of Music and Politics: A Critical Introduction, tells the BBC, "since unlike other politicians, he doesn't seem to concern if his choices come across chaotic, random or ideologically inconsistent. This is, after all, a man who has repeatedly switched his political allegiances, and his songbook similarly lurches around eclectically. I don't believe that he's trolling liberals by using songs such as YMCA; rather, we're seeing the authentic Trump in all his mixed-up glory."
LGBTQactivistsare planning to come together in a display of solidarity and resistance against the actions of President Donald Trump’s administration in one of the queerest ways possible: a huge dance party.
WERK for Calm, the same group of people who organized a queer dance party outside of Vice President Mike Pence’s home in January, are organizing a similar event, this time starting at the Trump Hotel in Washington D.C. and then parading towards the White House.
According to WERK for Peace founding organizer Firas Nasr, this monumental dance celebration is focused on solidarity, intersectionality, and resistance among marginalized people.
“The executive orders that Donald Trump has passed in the mere week and half of creature in office have further marginalized nearly all disenfranchised groups in the US,” Nasr told The Huffington Post. “We believe that any attempt to marginalize or attack any one community is a blunt attack on all of the diverse communities in the US. In response, we choose to utilize love and connection to uplift our communities, mark our intersectionality and differences, and come together as one unified coalition. We want to send the message
Roughly200LGBTQ and climate modify activists came together on Saturday bedtime for a gyrate party protest outside of Ivanka Trump’s house in Washington D.C.
WERK for Calm, a queer musician collective in Washington, D.C., organized the protest alongside 350 DC, Queer Resistance, and the Gender non-conforming Women of Hue Collective. The move served as a response to President Donald Trump’s recent executive order rolling back Obama-era climate policies and protections, as well as Ivanka Trump’s claims to be an LGBTQ ally while remaining actionless as her father’s administration continues to roll out anti-LGBTQ orders.
“Protesting at Ivanka Trump’s house was a way for the LGBTQ and Climate Justice communities to demand more than just words of support,” WERK for Peace organizer Firas Nasr told HuffPost. “While Ivanka Trump has painted herself as a ‘friend of the gays’ and ‘climate czar,’ she was radio silent in the face of blatant attacks on our climate and on the LGBTQ people last week. Thus, with songs favor Hillary Duff’s ‘Come Clean,’ CupcakKe’s ‘LGBT,’ and Bell Biv DeVoe’s ‘Poison,’ we brought the resistance to her doorstep and cheered, ‘Ivanka Trump, Come Dance!’ We celebrated our ea