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Thank you to this year’s sponsors for the generous and continuous support!
ALLIANCE
CAPITAL PRIDE
Welcome to DC
Welcome to DC Black Pride 2025 – where the celebration of our identity, our resilience, and our freedom takes center stage.
This year’s theme, Black Pride is FREEDOM, calls us to embrace our heritage, our queerness, and our right to exist and thrive without compromise. As we kick off World Pride in Washington, DC, we honor our past, uplift our present, and shape our future— boldly, unapologetically, and together.
DC Black Pride is more than an event; it is a legacy. Since its founding in 1991, it has stood as a sanctuary for Black LGBTQIA+ people to find joy, healing, and connection. It’s a space where we affirm our beauty, challenge injustice, and build community with pride. And this year, we stand even taller, as our stories, artistry, and activism lead the global stage.
At the heart of this movement is the Center for Black Equity, the proud convener of DC Black Pride and advocate for the health, rights, and well-being of Black LGBTQIA+ people around the world. Our work doesn’t stop at celebration—it pushes forward policies, programs, and partnerships that change lives and break cycles of exclusion.
In this moment—when our rights are under attack, when visibility can mean vulnerability, and when our communities are demanding justice—we must show up. We must be present not only for the parties and parades, but for each other. For the youth looking for affirmation, for our elders who paved the way, and for the many who cannot be here with us.
So let’s make this weekend a declaration. Let the world know: We are here. We are powerful. We are FREE.
On behalf of the Center for Black Equity and our incredible partners, thank you for being part of this historic celebration. May DC Black Pride 2025 fill your spirit, ignite your purpose, and remind you just how powerful our community truly is.
In
Solidarity
&
Celebration, Kenya Hutton President & CEO Center for Black Equity
USEFUL INFO
Pride Help Desk
Have questions? Need help? Come to the second floor in the Capital Hilton (host hotel) to get answers.
Friday, May 23: 2 – 10 p.m.
Saturday, May 24: 9 a.m. – 9:30 p.m.
Health & Wellness Pavilion
The Health & Wellness Pavilion presented by Us Helping Us features a wide range complimentary services. Services include:
• HIV Testing. On the spot and take home tests can be delivered to those in host hotel.
• Mpox Vaccine
• Immediate Doxy PEP
• Massages
• Mini Facials
• Vitals Signs Measurements (body temperature, pulse rate, respiration rate, blood pressure)
• Full Panel STI Screening
The Health & Wellness Pavilion will be open around clock from Friday, May 23 through Sunday, May 25 in the Statler Room.
Be Social
Share your DC Black Pride experience using the hashtags #DCBlackPride2025 #DCBP2025 #DCBP25 #BlackPrideIsFreedom #CenterForBlackEquity. Tag and mention:
Crowd Release/Notice of Filming and Photography
Please be advised that photographers and videographers may be present at all DC Black Pride events. By entering the event premises, you grant permission to the Center for Black Equity and its affiliates to photograph, film, and/or record you. Your presence constitutes consent to the use of your image, voice, and/or likeness in any media—now or in the future—without compensation, for any purpose related to the Center for Black Equity’s mission, including but not limited to promotional use on websites, social media, news outlets, and advertising materials.
By attending, you also waive any right to review or approve the final materials and release all claims against the Center for Black Equity regarding the use of your likeness, including claims for invasion of privacy, violation of publicity rights, defamation, copyright infringement, or compensation.
If you do not wish to be photographed or recorded, please do not enter the event premises.
Disclaimers
The sexual orientation or gender identity of attendees, advertisers, presenters and sponsors that participate in DC Black Pride is neither inferred nor implied.
The appearance of names or pictorial representation of individuals in this guide does not necessarily indicate the sexual orientation of such individual.
DC Black Pride is supported by many advertisers and the Center for Black Equity cannot take responsibility for any claims made by sponsors and advertisers.
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