“The Fabric of Freedom” is the WorldPride 2025 Theme

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At a ceremony on Thursday, Nov. 14, at The Schuyler at The Hamilton Hotel, the Capital Pride Alliance, and its global partner InterPride, unveiled the official theme of WorldPride 2025 — “The Fabric of Freedom.”The theme was selected, in part, due to the result of the recent 2024 U.S.

presidential election, which saw Republican President-elect Donald Trump victorious over Democrat Kamala Harris. “The Fabric of Freedom” is meant to represent unity as well as be a global call to action to the LGBTQ community and its allies.“Throughout history, people have used fabrics as expressive symbols, to communicate identities, and as forms of resistance,” wrote InterPride in an official statement. “While the LGBTQ+ community faces growing challenges both in the United States and worldwide from those seeking to divide rather than unite, it’s the fabric of our community — through our rich cultures, diverse identities, and backgrounds — that will guide us forward towards a better future.”The statement notes that “it is our shared humanity and unshakable unity that defines our greatest strength.

We are people bound by love and acceptance, struggle and resilience, our past and our future, forging an ever-evolving community that together embodies ‘The Fabric of Freedom.'”“Ever since we were awarded the bid, we had freedom as the core of what we wanted to articulate and express,” Ryan Bos, the executive director of the Capital Pride Alliance, told me in a brief phone call ahead of the event. “It was recently that we finalized on the actual framing and phrasing of the ‘Fabric of Freedom.'”Bos says the theme is rich in meaning for him personally.“To me, it means so many things,” he says. “It represents that all of us, no matter where we.