On the event of the celebration of Pride 2021, Mexico City was lit with flags of dissident identities all through Reforma.
The march quantity 43 on the event of Pride 2021 had an added axis on Saturday June 26th. Along with celebrating sexual range, equal marriage, and equal alternative for the LGBTQ + group, hundreds of individuals be a part of demonstrated to denounce femicides in Mexico.
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As one in all the important arteries of the capital, a winged victory on a raised pedestal crown Reformation. Regardless of being a chilango icon of freedom, Round it, the metropolis authorities erected a steel wall from the # 8M marches in Mexico City.
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To ensure that the protesters to cease intervening in the monument, it was most well-liked to ‘shield’ it in this fashion. In any case, on this event members of the collective Radikal Kuir resistance tried to deliver him down, in an iconoclastic temper. Regardless of the restrictions imposed by the pandemic, flags of trans, lesbian, bisexual and homosexual pleasure waved round winged victory, locked behind these institutional partitions.
We propose: Why not rejoice a hetero pleasure day in the month of sexual range?
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The demonstrations in favor of the trans group in Mexico prolonged to the queer childhoods in the nation. Folks with posters with the blue, pink and white flag made seen the must open the dialog round the youthful generations, who they can’t attend to their identification questions freely.
A transmedia celebration
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Drag queens, trans folks and different dissident gender identities they walked alongside Reforma to the capital’s Zócalo, the place a crowd that celebrated range in Mexico gathered. In parallel, Pride 2021 was additionally held just about.
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Simply as the protesters spoke out in favor of equal rights for the LGBTQ + group, they denounced the violent dynamics queer folks maintain getting in Mexico. Pride 2021 was a celebration, but in addition a motive to make seen discrimination, homophobia and machismo which are lived day-to-day in the nation.
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Those that determined to remain at residence have been in a position to attend distant live shows, conservatories and different digital occasions on the event of the celebration of sexual range. If the COVID-19 pandemic has proven us one thing, it is that resistance doesn’t solely need to be face-to-face.
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