Rally for gay rights to convene at historic US site

LGBTQI people will gather at the site of Martin Luther King's 1963 I Have a Dream speech for a political rally aimed at preserving decades of progress while protesting setbacks under President Donald Trump.
After the festive nature of a parade on Saturday through the streets of Washington DC, the political demonstration could be the main event of the weeks-long WorldPride celebration, which moves around the globe every two years.
It occurs at the Lincoln Memorial at a time of high tension over LGBTQI rights in the US.
Speakers are certain to rail against Trump, who has issued executive orders limiting transgender rights, banned transgender people from serving in the armed forces and rescinded anti-discrimination policies for LGBTQI people.
The White House has defended its dismantling of diversity, equity and inclusion programs, calling the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) framework a form of discrimination, and said its transgender policy protects women by keeping transgender women out of shared spaces.
The Trump administration has also touted its appointment of a number of openly gay people to cabinet posts and judgeships as evidence that Trump aims to serve all Americans.
Before the main rally, transgender supporters will hold their march to protest Trump's rhetoric and myriad state laws around the country that ban transgender health care services for minors.
Backers of those laws say they are attempting to protect minors from starting on a path they may later regret.
The transgender rally will march from the offices of the Human Rights Campaign, the largest LGBTQI organisation in the US, toward the Lincoln Memorial, which is considered hallowed ground in the US civil rights movement as the site of the King speech and the March on Washington that preceded historic legislation such as the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
LGBTQI people will gather at the site of Martin Luther King's 1963 I Have a Dream speech for a political rally aimed at preserving decades of progress while protesting setbacks under President Donald Trump.
After the festive nature of a parade on Saturday through the streets of Washington DC, the political demonstration could be the main event of the weeks-long WorldPride celebration, which moves around the globe every two years.
It occurs at the Lincoln Memorial at a time of high tension over LGBTQI rights in the US.
Speakers are certain to rail against Trump, who has issued executive orders limiting transgender rights, banned transgender people from serving in the armed forces and rescinded anti-discrimination policies for LGBTQI people.
The White House has defended its dismantling of diversity, equity and inclusion programs, calling the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) framework a form of discrimination, and said its transgender policy protects women by keeping transgender women out of shared spaces.
The Trump administration has also touted its appointment of a number of openly gay people to cabinet posts and judgeships as evidence that Trump aims to serve all Americans.
Before the main rally, transgender supporters will hold their march to protest Trump's rhetoric and myriad state laws around the country that ban transgender health care services for minors.
Backers of those laws say they are attempting to protect minors from starting on a path they may later regret.
The transgender rally will march from the offices of the Human Rights Campaign, the largest LGBTQI organisation in the US, toward the Lincoln Memorial, which is considered hallowed ground in the US civil rights movement as the site of the King speech and the March on Washington that preceded historic legislation such as the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
LGBTQI people will gather at the site of Martin Luther King's 1963 I Have a Dream speech for a political rally aimed at preserving decades of progress while protesting setbacks under President Donald Trump.
After the festive nature of a parade on Saturday through the streets of Washington DC, the political demonstration could be the main event of the weeks-long WorldPride celebration, which moves around the globe every two years.
It occurs at the Lincoln Memorial at a time of high tension over LGBTQI rights in the US.
Speakers are certain to rail against Trump, who has issued executive orders limiting transgender rights, banned transgender people from serving in the armed forces and rescinded anti-discrimination policies for LGBTQI people.
The White House has defended its dismantling of diversity, equity and inclusion programs, calling the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) framework a form of discrimination, and said its transgender policy protects women by keeping transgender women out of shared spaces.
The Trump administration has also touted its appointment of a number of openly gay people to cabinet posts and judgeships as evidence that Trump aims to serve all Americans.
Before the main rally, transgender supporters will hold their march to protest Trump's rhetoric and myriad state laws around the country that ban transgender health care services for minors.
Backers of those laws say they are attempting to protect minors from starting on a path they may later regret.
The transgender rally will march from the offices of the Human Rights Campaign, the largest LGBTQI organisation in the US, toward the Lincoln Memorial, which is considered hallowed ground in the US civil rights movement as the site of the King speech and the March on Washington that preceded historic legislation such as the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
LGBTQI people will gather at the site of Martin Luther King's 1963 I Have a Dream speech for a political rally aimed at preserving decades of progress while protesting setbacks under President Donald Trump.
After the festive nature of a parade on Saturday through the streets of Washington DC, the political demonstration could be the main event of the weeks-long WorldPride celebration, which moves around the globe every two years.
It occurs at the Lincoln Memorial at a time of high tension over LGBTQI rights in the US.
Speakers are certain to rail against Trump, who has issued executive orders limiting transgender rights, banned transgender people from serving in the armed forces and rescinded anti-discrimination policies for LGBTQI people.
The White House has defended its dismantling of diversity, equity and inclusion programs, calling the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) framework a form of discrimination, and said its transgender policy protects women by keeping transgender women out of shared spaces.
The Trump administration has also touted its appointment of a number of openly gay people to cabinet posts and judgeships as evidence that Trump aims to serve all Americans.
Before the main rally, transgender supporters will hold their march to protest Trump's rhetoric and myriad state laws around the country that ban transgender health care services for minors.
Backers of those laws say they are attempting to protect minors from starting on a path they may later regret.
The transgender rally will march from the offices of the Human Rights Campaign, the largest LGBTQI organisation in the US, toward the Lincoln Memorial, which is considered hallowed ground in the US civil rights movement as the site of the King speech and the March on Washington that preceded historic legislation such as the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

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National Guard troops have begun arriving in Los Angeles on orders from US President Donald Trump, in response to clashes in recent days between federal immigration authorities and protesters seeking to block them from carrying out deportations. Members of California's National Guard were seen on Sunday staging at the federal complex in downtown Los Angeles that includes the Metropolitan Detention Center, one of several sites of confrontations involving hundreds of people in the last two days. Trump has said he is deploying 2000 California National Guard troops to Los Angeles to quell the protests, which he called "a form of rebellion". The move came over the objections of Governor Gavin Newsome, marking the first time in decades that a state;s national guard was activated without a request from its governor, according to the Brennan Center for Justice. Early on Sunday, the deployment was limited to a small area in downtown Los Angeles, with the rest of the city of four million people largely unaffected. Their arrival follows two days of relatively small protests that began on Friday in downtown Los Angeles before spreading on Saturday to Paramount, a heavily Latino city south of the city, and neighbouring Compton. As federal agents staged near a Home Depot in Paramount, demonstrators sought to block Border Patrol vehicles, with some hurling rocks and chunks of cement. In response, federal agents in riot gear unleashed tear gas, flash-bang explosives and pepper balls. Tensions were high after a series of sweeps by immigration authorities the previous day, as the week-long tally of immigrant arrests in the city climbed past 100. A prominent union leader was arrested while protesting and accused of impeding law enforcement. On Sunday morning, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said the National Guard would "keep peace and allow people to be able to protest but also to keep law and order". The troops included members of the 79th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, according to a social media post from the Department of Defense that showed dozens of National Guard members with long guns and an armoured vehicle. In a signal of the administration's aggressive approach, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth also threatened to deploy active-duty Marines "if violence continues" in the region. Newsom, a Democrat, described Trump's decision to call in the National Guard as a "provocative show of force" that would only escalate tensions, adding that Hegseth's threat to deploy Marines on US soil was "deranged behaviour". Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders said the order by Trump reflected "a president moving this country rapidly into authoritarianism" and "usurping the powers of the United States Congress". Several Republicans, meanwhile, have voiced support for the involvement of the National Guard. Among them was Wisconsin Republican Senator Ron Johnson, who stopped short of backing Hegseth's threat to send in active-duty military personnel. "My guess is the National Guard ought to take care of the situation," Johnson said. National Guard troops have begun arriving in Los Angeles on orders from US President Donald Trump, in response to clashes in recent days between federal immigration authorities and protesters seeking to block them from carrying out deportations. Members of California's National Guard were seen on Sunday staging at the federal complex in downtown Los Angeles that includes the Metropolitan Detention Center, one of several sites of confrontations involving hundreds of people in the last two days. Trump has said he is deploying 2000 California National Guard troops to Los Angeles to quell the protests, which he called "a form of rebellion". The move came over the objections of Governor Gavin Newsome, marking the first time in decades that a state;s national guard was activated without a request from its governor, according to the Brennan Center for Justice. Early on Sunday, the deployment was limited to a small area in downtown Los Angeles, with the rest of the city of four million people largely unaffected. Their arrival follows two days of relatively small protests that began on Friday in downtown Los Angeles before spreading on Saturday to Paramount, a heavily Latino city south of the city, and neighbouring Compton. As federal agents staged near a Home Depot in Paramount, demonstrators sought to block Border Patrol vehicles, with some hurling rocks and chunks of cement. In response, federal agents in riot gear unleashed tear gas, flash-bang explosives and pepper balls. Tensions were high after a series of sweeps by immigration authorities the previous day, as the week-long tally of immigrant arrests in the city climbed past 100. A prominent union leader was arrested while protesting and accused of impeding law enforcement. On Sunday morning, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said the National Guard would "keep peace and allow people to be able to protest but also to keep law and order". The troops included members of the 79th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, according to a social media post from the Department of Defense that showed dozens of National Guard members with long guns and an armoured vehicle. In a signal of the administration's aggressive approach, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth also threatened to deploy active-duty Marines "if violence continues" in the region. Newsom, a Democrat, described Trump's decision to call in the National Guard as a "provocative show of force" that would only escalate tensions, adding that Hegseth's threat to deploy Marines on US soil was "deranged behaviour". Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders said the order by Trump reflected "a president moving this country rapidly into authoritarianism" and "usurping the powers of the United States Congress". Several Republicans, meanwhile, have voiced support for the involvement of the National Guard. Among them was Wisconsin Republican Senator Ron Johnson, who stopped short of backing Hegseth's threat to send in active-duty military personnel. "My guess is the National Guard ought to take care of the situation," Johnson said. National Guard troops have begun arriving in Los Angeles on orders from US President Donald Trump, in response to clashes in recent days between federal immigration authorities and protesters seeking to block them from carrying out deportations. Members of California's National Guard were seen on Sunday staging at the federal complex in downtown Los Angeles that includes the Metropolitan Detention Center, one of several sites of confrontations involving hundreds of people in the last two days. Trump has said he is deploying 2000 California National Guard troops to Los Angeles to quell the protests, which he called "a form of rebellion". The move came over the objections of Governor Gavin Newsome, marking the first time in decades that a state;s national guard was activated without a request from its governor, according to the Brennan Center for Justice. Early on Sunday, the deployment was limited to a small area in downtown Los Angeles, with the rest of the city of four million people largely unaffected. Their arrival follows two days of relatively small protests that began on Friday in downtown Los Angeles before spreading on Saturday to Paramount, a heavily Latino city south of the city, and neighbouring Compton. As federal agents staged near a Home Depot in Paramount, demonstrators sought to block Border Patrol vehicles, with some hurling rocks and chunks of cement. In response, federal agents in riot gear unleashed tear gas, flash-bang explosives and pepper balls. Tensions were high after a series of sweeps by immigration authorities the previous day, as the week-long tally of immigrant arrests in the city climbed past 100. A prominent union leader was arrested while protesting and accused of impeding law enforcement. On Sunday morning, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said the National Guard would "keep peace and allow people to be able to protest but also to keep law and order". The troops included members of the 79th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, according to a social media post from the Department of Defense that showed dozens of National Guard members with long guns and an armoured vehicle. In a signal of the administration's aggressive approach, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth also threatened to deploy active-duty Marines "if violence continues" in the region. Newsom, a Democrat, described Trump's decision to call in the National Guard as a "provocative show of force" that would only escalate tensions, adding that Hegseth's threat to deploy Marines on US soil was "deranged behaviour". Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders said the order by Trump reflected "a president moving this country rapidly into authoritarianism" and "usurping the powers of the United States Congress". Several Republicans, meanwhile, have voiced support for the involvement of the National Guard. Among them was Wisconsin Republican Senator Ron Johnson, who stopped short of backing Hegseth's threat to send in active-duty military personnel. "My guess is the National Guard ought to take care of the situation," Johnson said. National Guard troops have begun arriving in Los Angeles on orders from US President Donald Trump, in response to clashes in recent days between federal immigration authorities and protesters seeking to block them from carrying out deportations. Members of California's National Guard were seen on Sunday staging at the federal complex in downtown Los Angeles that includes the Metropolitan Detention Center, one of several sites of confrontations involving hundreds of people in the last two days. Trump has said he is deploying 2000 California National Guard troops to Los Angeles to quell the protests, which he called "a form of rebellion". The move came over the objections of Governor Gavin Newsome, marking the first time in decades that a state;s national guard was activated without a request from its governor, according to the Brennan Center for Justice. Early on Sunday, the deployment was limited to a small area in downtown Los Angeles, with the rest of the city of four million people largely unaffected. Their arrival follows two days of relatively small protests that began on Friday in downtown Los Angeles before spreading on Saturday to Paramount, a heavily Latino city south of the city, and neighbouring Compton. As federal agents staged near a Home Depot in Paramount, demonstrators sought to block Border Patrol vehicles, with some hurling rocks and chunks of cement. In response, federal agents in riot gear unleashed tear gas, flash-bang explosives and pepper balls. Tensions were high after a series of sweeps by immigration authorities the previous day, as the week-long tally of immigrant arrests in the city climbed past 100. A prominent union leader was arrested while protesting and accused of impeding law enforcement. On Sunday morning, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said the National Guard would "keep peace and allow people to be able to protest but also to keep law and order". The troops included members of the 79th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, according to a social media post from the Department of Defense that showed dozens of National Guard members with long guns and an armoured vehicle. In a signal of the administration's aggressive approach, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth also threatened to deploy active-duty Marines "if violence continues" in the region. Newsom, a Democrat, described Trump's decision to call in the National Guard as a "provocative show of force" that would only escalate tensions, adding that Hegseth's threat to deploy Marines on US soil was "deranged behaviour". Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders said the order by Trump reflected "a president moving this country rapidly into authoritarianism" and "usurping the powers of the United States Congress". Several Republicans, meanwhile, have voiced support for the involvement of the National Guard. Among them was Wisconsin Republican Senator Ron Johnson, who stopped short of backing Hegseth's threat to send in active-duty military personnel. "My guess is the National Guard ought to take care of the situation," Johnson said.