President Trump’s administration has not formally recognized Pride Month this year, but has doubled down on LGBTQ-related actions some advocates deem hostile — even as one of the world’s largest Pride celebrations takes place in the nation’s capital.

Speaking with reporters on Tuesday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Trump has “no plans” to issue a proclamation recognizing June as Pride Month.

Trump declined to issue Pride Month proclamations throughout his first term but briefly acknowledged Pride in a 2019 social media post touting his administration’s efforts to decriminalize homosexuality globally and recognizing the“outstanding contributions LGBT people have made to our great nation.”

This year, Trump has not acknowledged Pride Month publicly. But the Education Department on Monday said it would instead recognize June as “Title IX Month” in a nod to the administration’s efforts to use the 1972 civil rights law to bar transgender students from girls’ and women’s school sports, restrooms and locker rooms.

“This is going to come as maybe tough news for the Trump administration to stomach, but June is Pride Month, whether they choose to acknowledge that or not,” said Brandon Wolf, national press secretary for the Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest LGBTQ advocacy group. “And Pride is, and always has been, a protest, whether they choose to........

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