More than fifty years after the Stonewall revolt that gave rise to the commemoration date for the rights of the LGBTIQ + community, the celebrations will be virtual, as the pandemic requires, but no less important for that. In Argentina for the fifth consecutive year the Plurinational March “Enough of transvestites and transfemicides” will take place. This year, in addition, the celebrations for the International LGBTIQ + Pride Day will unite with the celebrations for the ten years of the approval of the Equal Marriage Law. The organizations demand, among others pending, the urgent inclusion of trans and transvestites to employment through a law that guarantees it. “We come from four years of setbacks for the rights agenda. There was underfunding of public policies and emptying of content. Now we have the expectation of being able to move forward with everything pending. The main thing, and the pandemic has confirmed it, is the trans-transvestite population, which is in a situation of exclusion that cannot be supported. So we demand the right to work and ask that a trans labor quota law be approved so that the national State is the first to transmit this affirmative action to society, “he told PageI12 Martín Canevaro, 100% Diversity and Rights activist.
The 5th Plurinational March “Enough of Transvesticides and Transfemicides” will have its virtual presence as many other activities and festivals that make visible the oppression that people of the LGBTIQ + collective have historically suffered. At 3 pm there will be a live on Facebook Live (@orguloylucha) with the participation of relatives of two murdered transvestite girls and activists. Marcela Tobaldi, from the organization La Rosa Naranja, explained that they will present “a video with the 42 deaths that occurred this year. We have two transvestites because of pimps. And the rest we consider as social transvesticide. It has to do with the average life: the poor quality of life and the prostitution system leads to the death of the transvestites at a very young age ”. “We know that the pandemic has exposed the most neglected sectors of Argentine society and one of those sectors is the trans and transvestite collective, who could not go out into the streets to find their livelihood and were all left with many difficulties: hunger, inability to pay for their rooms… ”, he pointed out.
That is why many organizations are working very hard to achieve the approval of the trans and transvestite quota law at the national level. “It is not the only thing we have to do from now on, but starting to include transvestites in formal employment in the state is a very important measure,” he added. Last Tuesday, the Commission on Women and Diversity of the Chamber of Deputies opened the debate on the projects that propose to establish a quota of labor access to the National State for trans and transvestites and there is much expectation and need for the approval of the national law. The quota law has already been approved in the provinces of Buenos Aires, Santa Fe, Chubut, Río Negro and Chaco and there are others that are also on this path. The LGBTIQ + Tucumán collective, for example, is promoting the “Trans labor inclusion” project in the provincial Legislature, “which invites broad and plural participation,” according to Gustavo Díaz Fernández, from the Crisálida popular library on gender and affective-sexual diversity in Tucumán. .
Pride and Marriage. #VisiblesyOrgullosos # Unadécadadeamor # Vamospormásigualdad, with these hashtags the Argentine LGBT Federation calls on its social networks to different activities that it will develop throughout the country, from today until July 15, uniting two emblematic dates: Pride Day and the ten years after the approval of the marriage equality law, the historic sanction that allowed same-sex couples to marry civilly. In the same sense, 100% Diversity and Rights carries out the “Pride and Marriage Festival10” (totally virtual), which started yesterday and will also end on Wednesday, July 15.
“The ‘Pride and Marriage Festival10’ offers a space of expression for LGBTI + artists and the visibility of the pending rights agenda such as the Transvestite Labor Quota, the historical reparation for trans people victims of institutional violence due to their gender identity , the recognition and respect of non-binary identities and family diversity, as well as the visibility and pedagogical assessment of trans childhoods, ”said Canevaro. “Historical repair is the project that Lohana Berkins promoted in life, which states that to recognize is to repair. The gender identity law recognizes identity as a human right. And it is proven that the Argentine State through the edicts or contravention codes has persecuted a population to install their sexual morality. This violation of human rights is a violation that the Argentine State must repair. We have very few survivors and they deserve a dignified old age, “he said.
History in motion. From CHA, the celebration took place throughout the month of June with the dissemination of festive and celebratory images of the march on their social networks. “We recorded some zooms with organizations with activists from Latin America. And today we are going to put that video and a video that compacts the history of the movement and the CHA in all these years. We always want to start from the New World group that was in 1967, because there is a generation that has no knowledge of what happened before the dictatorship. We did a story with the most emblematic moments. More and more teens are reading the page. That revitalizes ”, commented César Cigliutti, president of the Argentine Homosexual Community (CHA).
“You have to rescue the story and the word a lot,” Cigliutti insisted. The word pride was first spoken at the first pride march on July 2, 1992. Even within the community they resisted the word. ” “The effect of speaking of pride is that although we are victims we do not stay in the role of the victim. We went out to fight it, that without pride you cannot achieve. Pride is in demand, ”he explained.
Although the first marches in our country were in winter, in line with the international date, then it was decided to pass it to November 1, which is the date of the foundation of Nuevo Mundo, the first gay political organization that was established in the midst of the dictatorship of Ongania. In addition to giving it a local political stamp, the change of date allowed the enjoyment of the street with few clothes, something that in June was impossible.
Among the current debts in terms of laws, Cigliutti pointed out the update of the anti-discrimination law to include sexual orientation, gender identity and their expressions: “It is very important because when you have a work problem or when neighbors bother you … there is no a legal authority that says it can’t be done. It is not a punitive project, we want them to be educated ”. And he also asked for the actual application of the sex education law.
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