D.C. LGBTQ community invited to join mayor in MLK Day Parade
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bower’s Office of LGBTQ Affairs released a statement last Friday inviting the city’s LGBTQ community and its supporters to join the mayor in the city’s annual Martin Luther King Jr.
Peace Walk and Parade scheduled to be held Monday, Jan. 15, along a route in the city’s Anacostia neighborhood. “The Mayor’s Office of LGBTQ Affairs invites you to walk with us, Mayor Bowser, and fellow LGBTQIA+ community members in the 2024 MLK Holiday DC Annual Peace Walk and Parade on January 15th,” the announcement says. “Across the nation and the world, Dr.
King’s life and legacy is commemorated by a day of service and promoted as A Day On and Not a Day Off,” the statement continues. “The Martin Luther King Jr.
Parade symbolizes the need to continue Dr. King’s work and reinforces the ideas reflected in his works, ‘Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable…every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.’” The statement adds, “Those who believe in Dr.
