The WorldPride 2025 Parade kicks off Saturday in Washington, D.C., with a 1,000-foot Rainbow Flag made from pieces of the Gilbert Baker Foundation’s original 2003 Key West “Sea to Sea” flag.

The flag symbolizes “a vivid act of defiance and a powerful declaration of LGBTQ+ visibility amid mounting legislative attacks,” say organizers.

The foundation, founded in memory of the creator of the Rainbow Flag, said it has been aggressively fighting the defense of the flag amid legislative and legal challenges, rallying public support, organizing grassroots resistance and raising funds to support legal challenges against efforts to ban the flag and curtail LGBTQ+ visibility in public life.

The iconic sea-to-sea flag event in 2003 is when the late Baker and thousands of people unfurled a ra

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