Gay activists from Mexico demanded justice for the hate crimes this Saturday during a digital marathon that replaced his annual march of the Gay pride due to the pandemic of Covid-19.
“Today we think particularly of those people lesbian, gay, crossdresser, transsexual, transgender and intersex what were murdered because of their gender identity or expression orientation, “said the organizers of the “42 LGBTTTI + Digital Pride March” at the beginning of the event, broadcast on various platforms.
Under the slogan “Alert for our rights and not backward movement”, activists warned that last year was “very violent for the population LGBTTTI +“.
“Every three days of the year (2019) a person was murdered and only 10% of these murders were considered, investigated, and punished as hate crimes“The statement added.
On June 18, the body of María Elizabeth Montaño, transgender medical 47-year-old activist, on a highway on the outskirts of Mexico City.
On March 24, at the beginning of the confinement, Naomi Nicole, a transsexual prostitute in her 25s, was shot to death in the center of the capital.
To perform despite the pandemic the Gay Pride rally that year after year fills the main avenues of Mexico City with colorful floats and traveling discos, the organizers of the “digital march” invited supporters to record themselves walking, singing or dancing in their homes and spread the images throughout Instagram The TikTok under the label #ElOrgulloPermance.
A man who walks smiling from one end of his house to the other with a cassock and a cross painted in the colors of the rainbow is among the thousands of videos, photographs and messages broadcast.
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In another, a smiling baby is seen wearing white pants with a stripe in the colors of the gay flag. “Your existence is the fruit of resistance and resilience,” says the phrase that accompanies the image.
However, some 200 people marched down Reforma Avenue, breaking the confinement imposed by the pandemic, that in this country of 127 million inhabitants leaves about 208,400 infections, with almost 25,800 deaths.
In Mexico City, same-sex marriage has been legal for 10 years and since 2015 the change of identity has been recognized in birth certificates.
The homosexual community requires the same identity registration rights for infants transsexual, the full regulation of the right to adoption for gay couples and standardize the laws of the different states of the country.
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