2023-11-05 02:22:02
BUENOS AIRES (AP) — Thousands of people took to the streets of Buenos Aires on Saturday to celebrate sexual diversity and fight once morest “the anti-rights,” a few weeks before the presidential runoff in which the Peronist Sergio Massa and the far-right Javier will face each other. Milei.
Under the slogan “Let’s stop the anti-rights”, thousands of people enjoyed a music festival, multicolored flags, drag queen dresses, costumes, high heels, exaggerated makeup and demonstrations of love, in a march that took place from the Plaza de Mayo and the Casa Rosada to the country’s Congress.
“The children of p(asterisk)(asterisk)(asterisk) do not vote for Milei,” read one of the posters, in reference to the fear of the LGBTI+ community of going backwards in rights if the far-right candidate prevailed at the polls in the presidential elections on November 19. Posters were also present with the image of the Peronist candidate Sergio Massa, made up with colors, in a clear nod to the political option on which the participants of the 32nd Argentine pride march are betting.
While Argentina leads Latin America in the recognition of non-binary gender identity and the right of citizens to document their self-identified gender regardless of their birth sex, march attendees expressed concern that true equality is still something far.
“I always come to be able to show myself as I am, to spend the day and basically be here and support the fight for rights, for me it is something very important,” Noa León Camorri, a participant in the march, told The Associated Press.
“Pride is democracy,” said some members of the 40 organizations that called the demonstration.
“This year we celebrate democracy as very important, which is in danger with these far-right candidates like Milei and Macri,” Marcela Tobaldi, founder of La Rosa Naranja, one of the associations that are part of, told the Argentine news agency Télam. of the organization.
“Many transvestite, trans, deceased colleagues were left along the way, and we have to vindicate all of us who are still resilient, resisting in these times,” Tobaldi added.
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