Various criticisms aroused the decision of the Government to give great urgency to the bill that establishes July 9 as the National Day of Lesbian Visibility. The date coincides with Flag Day.
The Segpres minister, Ana Lya Uriarte, informed that they will try to modify the date of the Lesbian Visibility. “There is a collision of dates and in this sense it will not be possible to process two dates that represent different reasons for commemoration on the same day”said.
The spokesperson for the Movement for Homosexual Integration and Liberation (Movilh), Javiera Zúñiga, pointed out that “This position of the Government is totally irresponsible, as well as a mockery once morest women of diversity.”
“Having put urgency to the bill to remove it in just two days, is extremely light, which makes explicit a reprehensible improvisation with the human rights of a sector of society. If the intention was to analyze the bill in greater detail, there is no justification for giving it urgency and then taking it away,” he added.
Zúñiga remarked that “July 9 (1984) is the date of the first recorded hate attack once morest a lesbian woman in Chile, Mónica Briones, and that date cannot be changed. It is and will continue to be the date that diverse women commemorate the Day of Lesbian Visibility. That the Government now indicates that it will change the date also implies that it did not know what Flag Day was either. This is ridiculous, absurd.”
Along the same lines, deputy María Francisca Bello, from Convergencia Social (CS), commented on Twitter that “giving in to the extreme right agenda is not up to the ministers.”