Under the motto “The debt is with us” This Saturday, November 5th, the March for Pride, which like every first Saturday in November will express the pride of the Lesbian, Gay, Transvestite, Transsexual, Transgender, Intersex and Queer (LGBTIQ +) communities for their way of life, exposing the different claims of this Social group.

The march, which turns 30, will have two stages, one in Plaza de Mayo and the other in Plaza de los Congresos. Cazzu, Richi Star, Invisibl3s, Nikka Lorach and DJ Alan Fabulous; to Congress, Paolo RuizDraga Paliza and Tita Print.

The shows will start at 3pm to close the meeting with the usual march that will extend from Plaza de Mayo to the Congress starting at 17:00.

Cazzu, with four albums released, among which, little traitorreleased this year, she is one of the most popular rappers of the local scene, to the point that they call her La jefa, and the most important participant of this march which will begin at 13, with the opening of a fair with crafts produced by community entrepreneurs.

A bit of history

The first march was led by Carlos Jauregui, founder of Gays for Civil Rights, who called the meeting on July 2, 1992 in the Plaza de Mayo.

The choice of that date responded to the fact that July 2 was the first non-working day after June 28, the day on which Pride Day is celebrated in many countries in commemoration of the Stonewall riots in New York in the United States.

On that date, in 1968, heThe homosexual community rose up against the New York police for arrests, persecutions and abuses in general that homosexuals have suffered at the hands of the police.

Various organizations such as transsexuals for the right to life and identity (Transdevi), the Argentine Gay Lesbian Integration Society (SIGLA), Research on Sexuality and Social Interaction (ISIS), Lesbian Existence Notebooks and the Metropolitan Community Church (ICM) have joined the initiative.

At that time, there was two specific claims of the LGBTIQ + community and were the Background Check Law and the so-called Police Edictswhich empowered the police to arrest people on public roads and raid community hangouts.

At that time, the community tried to repeal Article 2, which sanctioned “those who performed on the street wearing clothes of the opposite sex” with 30 days in prison and punished “people of both sexes who publicly incited or offered themselves. to the carnal act “.

Harassment and persecution were such in the early 1990s that, for fear of reprisals, many of the participants in that first demonstration were covered in white masks.

Although Jáuregui died in 1996 of AIDS, the march he organized for the first time continues to be a time when the community can present its needs as a group, already with enough freedom not to have to be covered.

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