WorldPride DC 2025 Ride: Red Bear Brewing via LGBTQ+ Congressional Cemetery Tour

Please join us for a variety of activities to celebrate WorldPride DC 2025! We are excited to invite our Brompton community and the general public from the DC area to join us for a relaxed ride from Georgetown along the Potomac and Anacostia to an LGBTQ+ self-guided walking tour at Congressional Cemetery. All bikes are welcome and loaner Bromptons can be arranged through our DC Junction!
Congressional Cemetery is believed to be the world’s only cemetery with a Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual, Transgender, Queer + section. Congressional Cemetery is an active cemetery with many members of the LGBTQ+ community currently buying plots, and is the future site of the 501(c)(3) nonprofit LGBTQ+ Veterans Memorial. Download the self-guided walking tour map here.
We will then continue across Hill East and Capitol Hill and conclude the ride at Red Bear Brewery, DC's first and only gay owned and operated brewery! Participants are free to make their own route home from Red Bear on the MBT or any of the other cycle tracks and bike paths in the area. We will try to sit outside and there are plenty of bike racks immediately adjacent in front of REI.

View the route at this link.

Route description: this will be a chill ride and an intermediate distance of about 11 miles, mostly on cycle tracks and bike paths. There will be plenty of opportunities to stop for selfies along the way!

Itinerary:

• 11:00am Gather at Start
• 11:30am Depart Georgetown
• 12:30pm Stop at Congressional Cemetery
• 2:00pm End at Red Bear Brewing Company

Ride level:
Chill / Relaxed
Pace: 20 kph / 12 mph
Distance: less than 30 km / 20mi
There will be several stops along the way. Everyone welcome. No one will be left behind.

All riders who are comfortable with the pace and distance are welcome!

Our Community Rules:

1. All bikes are welcome.
2. Helmets are required. Lights are required if riding in darkness.
3. No one gets left behind!
4. Be kind and encourage others.
5. Welcome new experiences and people.
6. This space is for gathering, not for selling.
7. Update your RSVP if you cannot make it.

BY ATTENDING this event you ACKNOWLEDGE and ACCEPT the following:

1. I ACKNOWLEDGE, agree, and represent that I understand the nature of bicycling activities and that I am qualified, in good health, and in proper physical condition to participate in such activity. I further acknowledge that the ride-out will be conducted over public pavements and facilities open to the public, and upon which the hazards of traveling are to be expected. I further agree and warrant that if, at any time, I believe conditions to be unsafe, I will immediately discontinue further participation.
2. I FULLY UNDERSTAND that (a) BICYCLING ACTIVITIES INVOLVE RISKS AND DANGERS OF SERIOUS BODILY INJURY, INCLUDING PERMANENT DISABILITY, PARALYSIS AND DEATH ("Risks"); (b) these Risks and dangers may be caused by my own actions or inactions, the actions or inactions of others participating in the ride-out, the conditions in which the ride-out takes place, or the negligence of others; (c) there may be OTHER RISKS AND SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC LOSSES either not known to me or not readily foreseeable at this time; and I FULLY ACCEPT AND ASSUME ALL SUCH RISKS AND ALL RESPONSIBILITY FOR LOSSES, COSTS, AND DAMAGES I may incur as a result of my participation; (d) I acknowledge that Brompton Bicycle, event organizers, ride leaders, and volunteers will not be liable for any accidents or damages through this ride-out.
3. PHOTO RELEASE: I CONSENT to my voice, name, and/or likeness being used, without compensation, in any and all media, whether now known or hereafter devised, for eternity, and release Brompton Bicycle, its successors, assigns and licensees from any liability whatsoever of any nature.

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