The District is ready for Pride Month. This year, residents have their choice of festivals, parties, and activities for the whole family.

D.C.’s LGBT community is also celebrating Black Pride this Memorial Day weekend.

Photo by Francis Chung // www.seeingaspects.com Rising rap star and D.C. area native Wale will make a guest appearance at this weekend’s DC Black Pride festival after all, Metro Weekly is reporting. Wale had originally been scheduled to headline Black Pride’s main concert event on Sunday, but a week ago, organizers told reporters they had received word from the rapper’s agent that he would not appear. The agent at first said that Wale had…

Wale Following allegations published in Metro Weekly and the Washington Blade that he backed out of an appearance at DC Black Pride because he didn’t want to perform at an LGBT event, rapper and D.C. area native Wale has taken to Twitter to defend himself. “I didn’t even know bout a show..I have done 48 shows this year..and I haven’t booked one personally,” tweets @Wale. Black Pride board member Earl Fowlkes told Metro Weekly…

Wale performs April 3 before a D.C. United match. Photo by Francis Chung / www.seeingaspects.com The Washington Blade reports on a potentially very ugly turn of events for rising homegrown rap star Wale. It seems the musician was originally slated to perform at this year’s DC Black Pride festival, part of the annual Capital Pride events, but has since pulled out, claiming that he “didn’t know Black Pride was a gay-related event when he…