Celebrating Pride
Celebrate Pride at the Cathedral with special services, tours, and programs as DC welcomes the global LGBTQ+ community for WorldPride 2025.
Washington National Cathedral is a House of Prayer for All People, rooted in The Episcopal Church yet open to all. We believe every person is a beloved child of God, and we aim to live out our Baptismal Covenant to “respect the dignity of every human being.”
Coming soon: special tours and more
Check back soon for our expanded tour offerings and other opportunities.
Pride Sunday Features • June 1, 2025
Pride Sunday Holy Eucharist
Sun Jun. 1 • 11:15 am Our principal weekly Holy Eucharist will celebrate and honor the lives and contributions of members of the LGBTQ+ community with special prayers and music and guest preacher, the Reverend Charles Graves IV, Rector of Christ Episcopal Church, Shaker Heights, Ohio, and member of the Executive Council of The Episcopal Church.
Choral Evensong with Anthem Debut
Sun Jun. 1 • 4 pm Led by the Cathedral Choir, this special service of Choral Evensong includes the Cathedral’s premiere of Our Wildest Imagining, a choral anthem commissioned in honor of the Right Reverend V. Gene Robinson, the first openly gay bishop in the worldwide Anglican Communion.
Online Event: An Afternoon with Poet Jericho Brown
Sun Jun. 1 • 4 pm Join us for an online conversation and reading with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jericho Brown. A 2024 winner of a MacArthur Genius Grant, Brown’s poems have been described as offering “an unlikely kind of hope . . . evidence of a fragile belief in the possibility of change, of the will that makes change possible.” This event will be recorded for registrants who cannot watch the livestream.
WorldPride Parade
LGBTQI+ Alliance
The Cathedral's LGBTQI+ Alliance will participate in the WorldPride Parade on June 7. Learn more below about the event at Capital Pride's website.
Parade Info
Remembering Matthew Shepard
st. joseph's chapel
In October of 2018, Matthew Wayne Shepard was interred in the columbarium of Saint Joseph’s Chapel. The bronze plaque that honors Matthew Shepard was installed to mark his final resting place. Learn more below about Matthew and related events at the Cathedral below, and check back here for information on special opportunities to pay respects during Pride Month.
learn more