Freedom to Sing
WorldPride International Choral Festival
WorldPride 2025 is coming to Washington, DC and the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, DC (GMCW) will be the anchor of the arts and culture calendar. GMCW is presenting an International Choral Festival that will be the Arts & Culture Marquee Event for WorldPride 2025. The festival will bring the DC metro area to life with daily hour-long pop-up performances showcasing the power, pride, and diversity of queer choral music. Each day of the festival, audiences will experience performances by GMCW’s own ensembles — Potomac Fever, Rock Creek Singers, Seasons of Love, GenOUT Youth Chorus, and 17th Street Dance — alongside guest choruses from across the country, many of them members of the national GALA Choruses network, and singers from around the world. Festival highlights will include special collaborations with local and national ensembles, the area premiere of A Peacock Among Pigeons, and the world premiere of Our Wildest Imaginings, a new work by acclaimed composer Dominick DiOrio, honoring The Right Reverend Bishop Gene V. Robinson.
Friday, May 23 – Sunday, June 8
Venues currently include the Atlas Performing Arts Center, Woolly Mammoth, Shakespeare Theatre, Union Market, Epiphany Church, St Thomas’ Parish, Live at 10th & G, National City Church, Sixth & I, and Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library among others.
The following choruses and groups are planning to participate in the International Choral Festival: Asian Rainbow Chorus (NYC), Brolo, Central Maryland Rainbow Chorus, Congressional Chorus, Lavender Light Gospel Choir (NYC), New Wave Singers of Baltimore, New York City Gay Men’s Chorus, Twin Cities Gay Men’s Chorus, Jabberwocks (Brown University), Major Minors (LGBTQ+ and allied youth chorus from TN), National LGBTQ+ Flute Choir, Richmond Allied Voices Treble Chorus, Triangle Gay Men’s Chorus (Raleigh, NC), and the Philadelphia Gay Men’s Chorus. Full schedule — as of April 8, 2025 — is below. More groups and performances to be announced.
Please note: schedule is subject to change.
*Not included in VIP premium pass
Thursday, May 22
6:30 pm
AIDS Quilt Panel Dedication
St. Thomas’ Parish • 1517 18th St NW
Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, DC (Washington, DC)
Saturday, May 24
1:00 pm
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church • 301 A St SE
New Wave Singers of Baltimore (Baltimore, MD), Rock Creek Singers (Washington, DC), and Not What You Think (Washington, DC)
2:00 pm*
National Museum of American History • Constitution Ave NW between 12th and 14th Sts NW
GenOUT Youth Chorus (Washington, DC) and Major Minors (Nashville, TN)
4:00 pm
St. Margaret’s Episcopal Church • 1830 Connecticut Ave NW
New Wave Singers of Baltimore (Baltimore, MD), Rock Creek Singers (Washington, DC), and Sacred and Profane Chorus (Berkeley, CA)
6:00 pm
Augustana Lutheran Church • 2100 New Hampshire Ave NW
GenOUT Youth Chorus (Washington, DC) and Major Minors (Nashville, TN)
Sunday, May 25
10:00 am*
Capitol Hill Presbyterian Church • 201 4th St SE
Rock Creek Singers (Washington, DC)
10:30 am*
Worship Service
St. Thomas’ Parish • 1517 18th St NW
GenOUT Youth Chorus (Washington, DC) and Major Minors (Nashville, TN)
2:00 pm
Reformation Lutheran Church • 212 E Capitol St NE
Not What You Think (Washington, DC) and Sacred and Profane Chorus (Berkeley, CA)
6:00 pm
The Falls Church Episcopal • 115 E Fairfax St, Falls Church, VA
Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, DC featuring A Peacock Among Pigeons with 17th Street Dance
Monday, May 26
7:30 pm
St. Augustine’s Episcopal Church • 555 Water St SW
Major Minors (Nashville, TN) and Potomac Fever (Washington, DC)
Tuesday, May 27
7:30 pm
St. John’s Church, Lafayette Square • 1525 H St NW
Major Minors (Nashville, TN), Rock Creek Singers (Washington, DC), and Seasons of Love (Washington, DC)
Wednesday, May 28
12:00 pm
Martin Luther King, Jr. Library • 901 G St NW
Major Minors (Nashville, TN)
2:00 pm*
National Museum of American History • Constitution Ave NW between 12th and 14th Sts NW
Major Minors (Nashville, TN)
7:30 pm*
Adas Israel Congregation • 2850 Quebec St NW
Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, DC (Washington, DC) featuring A Peacock Among Pigeons with 17th Street Dance, and Georgetown Chorale (Washington, DC)
Audience members are asked to register in advance here to attend.
Thursday, May 29
7:30 pm
St. Augustine’s Episcopal Church • 555 Water St SW
Cherry Blossom District (Washington, DC)
Friday, May 30
12:00 pm
Martin Luther King, Jr. Library • 901 G St NW
7th Son (Charlotte, NC), Spite & Malice (Charlotte, NC, and Vox Dominae (Charlotte, NC)
2:00 pm*
National Museum of American History • Constitution Ave NW between 12th and 14th Sts NW
7th Son (Charlotte, NC), Spite & Malice (Charlotte, NC), and Vox Dominae (Charlotte, NC)
5:00 pm*
Shakespeare Theatre Company • 450 7th St NW
Seasons of Love (Washington, DC) and Tonewall (New York, NY)
6:30 pm
Capitol Hill Presbyterian Church • 201 4th St SE
7th Son (Charlotte, NC), Spite & Malice (Charlotte, NC, and Vox Dominae (Charlotte, NC)
7:30 pm
Foundry United Methodist Church • 1500 16th St NW
New York City Gay Men’s Chorus (New York, NY), Seasons of Love (Washington, DC), and Tonewall (New York, NY)
Saturday, May 31
11:00 am*
Library of Congress * Thomas Jefferson Building, 10 1st St SE
National LGBTQIA+ Flute Choir (USA), New York City Gay Men’s Chorus (New York, NY), and Rock Creek Singers (Washington, DC)
All audience members must register here for timed entry passes.
12:30 pm*
Smithsonian American Art Museum • G and 8th Sts NW
GenOUT Youth Chorus (Washington, DC)
2:00 pm
Reformation Lutheran Church • 212 E Capitol St NW
7th Son (Charlotte, NC), New York City Gay Men’s Chorus (New York, NY), Richmond Allied Voices (Richmond, VA), Spite & Malice (Charlotte, NC, and Vox Dominae (Charlotte, NC)
2:00 pm*
National Museum of American History • Constitution Ave NW between 12th and 14th St NW
Cherry Blossom District (Washington, DC) and Asian Rainbow Chorus (New York, NY)
4:30 pm
Western Presbyterian Church • 2401 Virginia Ave NW
Richmond Allied Voices (Richmond, VA) and Tonewall (New York, NY)
Sunday, June 1
10:30 am*
Worship Service
All Soul’s Church Unitarian • 1500 Harvard St NW
Rock Creek Singers (Washington, DC)
10:30 am*
Worship Service
Rockville Presbyterian Church • 215 W Montgomery Ave, Rockville, MD
GenOUT Youth Chorus (Washington, DC)
1:00 pm
Capital Jewish Museum • 575 3rd St NW
Potomac Fever (Washington, DC) and Tonewall (New York, NY)
National Gallery of Art* • 6th and Constitution Aves, NW
- 1:00 pm – National LGBTQIA+ Flute Choir (USA)
- 2:00 pm – Rock Creek Singers (Washington, DC)
- 3:00 pm – Tonewall (New York, NY)
6:00 pm
St. Thomas’ Parish • 1517 18th St NW
Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, DC (Washington, DC) and GenOUT Youth Chorus (Washington, DC) with 17th Street Dance featuring A Peacock Among Pigeons and the premiere of Dominick DiOrio’s “Our Wildest Imaginings” in honor or the Right Reverand Bishop Gene V. Robinson
Monday, June 2
5:30 pm*
Union Market • 309 5th St NE
Potomac Fever (Washington, DC)
7:30 pm*
Riggs Washington, DC • 900 F St NW
Potomac Fever (Washington, DC)
7:30 pm
St. Thomas’ Parish • 1517 18th St NW
Cherry Blossom District (Washington, DC) and Congressional Chorus (Washington, DC)
Tuesday, June 3
5:30 pm*
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company • 641 D St NW
Rock Creek Singers (Washington, DC)
7:30 pm
Atlas Performing Arts Center • 1333 H St NE
DC Labor Chorus (Washington, DC) and Seasons of Love (Washington, DC)
Wednesday, June 4
12:00 pm
Martin Luther King, Jr. Library • 901 G St NW
Jackson Reed High School Concert Choir (Washington, DC)
7:30 pm
National City Christian Church • 5 Thomas Circle NW
Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, DC (Washington, DC), Triangle Gay Men’s Chorus (Raleigh, NC) featuring A Peacock Among Pigeons with 17th Street Dance
Thursday, June 5
11:20 am*
J.W. Marriott Washington, DC • 1331 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Rock Creek Singers (Washington, DC)
12:30 pm*
Smithsonian American Art Museum • G and 8th Sts NW
Rock Creek Singers (Washington, DC) and Triangle Gay Men’s Chorus (Raleigh, NC)
Friday, June 6
12:00 pm
Martin Luther King, Jr. Library • 901 G St NW
Brolo (Philadelphia, PA) and Central Maryland Rainbow Chorus (Columbia, MD)
2:00 pm
First Congregational United Church of Christ • 945 G St NW
On That Note! (Hartford, CT), Philadelphia Gay Men’s Chorus (Philadelphia, PA), and Triangle Gay Men’s Chorus (Raleigh, NC)
7:30 pm
National City Christian Church • 5 Thomas Circle NW
Lavender Light Gospel Choir (New York, NY), Rock Creek Singers (Washington, DC), Seasons of Love (Washington, DC), and Twin Cities Gay Men’s Chorus (Minneapolis, MN)
Saturday, June 7
10:00 am*
Lincoln Memorial • 2 Lincoln Memorial Cir NW
LOVE Chorus (USA)
1:00 pm*
International Pride March • Kickoff: 14th and T Streets NW
LOVE Chorus (USA)
Sunday, June 8
9:30 am*
Rally at Lincoln Memorial • 2 Lincoln Memorial Cir NW
L.OV.E. Chorus (combined choruses)
12:00 pm*
International March on Washington
L.O.V.E. Chorus (combined choruses)