内容摘要：If confirmed as surgeon general, Means would be tasked with helping promote

If confirmed as surgeon general, Means would be tasked with helping promote

Immediately the Kennedy Center became nonresponsive, Roest said. On Feb. 12, he said, he received a one-sentence email from a Kennedy Center staffer stating, “We are no longer able to advance your contract at this time.”“They went from very eager to host to nothing,” he said. “We have not since heard a word from anybody at the Kennedy Center, but that’s not going to stop us.”

In the wake of the cancellation, Roest said he managed to move the International Pride Orchestra performance to the Strathmore theater in nearby Bethesda, Maryland.Crenshaw said some other events, including a drag story time and a display of parts of the AIDS Memorial Quilt, would be moved to the World Pride welcome center in Chinatown.Monica Alford, a veteran arts and culture journalist and event planner, was scheduled to organize an event June 8 as part of Tapestry of Pride, but said she also saw communication abruptly end within days of Trump’s takeover.

Alford has a long history with the Kennedy Center and organized theon the Kennedy Center rooftop in 2024, and said she regarded the institution — and its recent expansion known as The Reach — as “my home base” and “a safe space for the queer community”

She said she was still finalizing the details of her event, which she described as “meant to be family-friendly, just like the drag brunch was family-friendly and classy and sophisticated.”

She said she mourns the loss of the partnership she nurtured with the Kennedy Center.NUSEIRAT, Franja de Gaza (AP) — El caos estalló nuevamente el jueves en la Franja de Gaza cuando decenas de miles de palestinos desesperados intentaron recoger alimentos de sitios de distribución administrados por una fundación respaldada por Estados Unidos e Israel. Múltiples testigos informaron de un descontrol de personas tomando ayuda, y dijeron que las tropas israelíes dispararon para controlar a las multitudes.

En el centro de Gaza, un video de The Associated Press mostraba bombas de humo surcando el aire alrededor de un centro de distribución, y se escucharon disparos mientras un tanque israelí se movía cerca. Testigos dijeron que las tropas israelíes dispararon los proyectiles para dispersar a los palestinos después de que el centro se quedara sin suministros el jueves.“Vine a buscar un saco de harina... una lata de sardinas o cualquier cosa”, comentó Mahmoud Ismael, un hombre con muletas que dijo haber caminado kilómetros para llegar al centro, sólo para irse con las manos vacías.

“No hay comida en mi casa, y no puedo conseguir comida para mis hijos”, señaló.El sistema de ayuda lanzado esta semana por la Fundación Humanitaria de Gaza, que administra tres centros de distribución en el territorio palestino, ha estado plagado de problemas. Israel ha programado que la FHG se haga cargo de la distribución de alimentos en Gaza a pesar de la oposición de las Naciones Unidas y de la mayoría de los grupos humanitarios.