Demonstrators gathered in Washington on Sunday for World Pride, a bi-annual event that this year took on political overtones.

The city holds a local Pride parade annually. But this year’s event will be much bigger, as Washington hosts the WorldPride Parade, which attracts visitors from around the world. Sydney hosted it last time, and Amsterdam is up next.

A global Pride festival celebrating the LGBTQ+ community will culminate on Sunday in a rally and march on the National Mall. WorldPride, an annual event being hosted in Washington, D.C. this year, has drawn hundreds of thousands of visitors to the nation’s capital.