The images left by the 43rd edition of the 2021 gay pride march in Mexico City

Despite the call not to leave for the COVID pandemic – 19, thousands of people from the LGBTTTIQ + community took to the streets of Mexico City with a call for equality and not discrimination.

Photo: Sáshenka Gutiérrez / EFE

In Mexico City thousands of people took to the streets to participate in the edition number 50 of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride march (LGBTTTIQ +) that departed from the Angel of Independence to the capital’s Zócalo.

Although there was a call not to march due to the pandemic by COVID – 19 and the return of the Mexican capital with yellow traffic lights, the streets were painted in the colors of the rainbow.

It was from noon this Saturday 26 of June when the multicolored contingent marched along Paseo de la Reforma avenue with the voice in favor of rights for equality, non-discrimination and violence, the equity and justice.

“It is important to always make visible all the actions we carry out in favor of trans women and other people from the LGBT + community, ”Scarlett Giselle Reyes, from the Transgender National Political Agenda collective, who led the mobilization, told EFE Agency.

The Secretariat of Citizen Security (SSC ) of Mexico City deployed with a device with about 700 items Y 43 vehicles to guarantee the safety and mobility of the participants.

The march in the Mexican capital took place within the framework of International LGBT + Pride Day which is celebrated worldwide on 28 of June.

In Mexico the LGBTTTIQ + community has achieved recognition legal of same-sex marriage in more than 20 of the 32 state, in addition to gender identity laws for trans people in more than a dozen.

The organizers of the March also made a transmission via internet of the event that had a duration of 10 hours under the motto “In front of the d esamparo: resistance and unity. The radical thing is empathy. ”

In June 1979 occurred the first organized demonstration in favor of the rights of homosexual people in Mexico City, a decade after the Stonewall riots in New York.

The 28 June 1970 the first gay pride marches in New York and Los Angeles and n commemoration of the first anniversary of the riots.

43 edition of the Gay Pride March in CDMX as it passes through Reforma and Juárez avenues pic.twitter.com/pfnnjDrgt3

– CECILIA TÉLLEZ (@CeciTellez) June 26, 2021

With information from Efe.

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