The trans and non-binary transvestite collective (TTNB) and groups that defend sexual diversity held marches, festivals, talks, film series and cultural activities in the provinces on Tuesday to commemorate the International LGBTIQ+ Pride Day in which they sought to expand their claims for the equal rightsthe social inclusion and they manifested against gender violencethe Chate rhymes and the institutional violence.
The governments of all the provinces joined the commemoration of the date with the multicolored lighting of emblematic sites or public institutions and with various actions through their respective Human Rights secretariats.
Buenos Aires province
The Buenos Aires government ordered, in this framework, place the rainbow flag on the facade of the Government House and keep it there throughout the week as a symbol to reaffirm the feeling about sexual and gender identities and orientations and to make visible their presence in society and their claims.
In Bahía Blanca, a picnic was held this Tuesday afternoon in Plaza Rivadavia, in front of the Municipal Palace, where the organizers said that “there will be artists who are going to sing, dance and also stallholders and artisans”, while in Necochea the team of Prevention of the Directorate of Gender Policies held a workshop for high school students focused on the visibility and recognition of the rights of the community.
?️? On the International Day of the #LGTBIPride+ the colors of diversity in the Government House of the Province show the commitment to the rights guaranteed by the Law of #Equality marriagethe law of #Gender identity or the Law of #ComprehensiveSexualEducation. pic.twitter.com/TpTSHjvUSb
— Ministry of Women PBA (@MinMujeresPBA) June 28, 2022
Cordova
An extensive program of activities is carried out throughout June and within this framework this Tuesday a dissertation called “Queerversatorio: We wonder how we are” at the 21st Century University with a discussion of references from the LGBTIQ+ collective.
There were also solidarity actions such as “Open cabinets” and “Help us keep warm”, aimed at people in the group who are in a state of socioeconomic vulnerability and a First Provincial Diversity Meeting was held in a capital pub with a show and talks.
?️? In commemoration of the Stonewall revolt, every year we claim the right of people to live their lives in freedom and equality, and we reaffirm our commitment to work to guarantee the missing rights to build a life free of violence. #Pride2022 pic.twitter.com/MozKevfI9T
– Ministry of Women (@mindelamujercba) June 28, 2022
The activities will continue this Wednesday with the screening of a video on “10 years with the Gender Identity Law” at the Hugo del Carril film club and a literary contest for pride and diversity.
Santa Fe
The pride table and the capital’s municipality organized debates on the new law on HIV and ESIwhile the directorates of Women and Dissidents and of Health designed activities that will begin on Thursday with a discussion on the new HIV law, at the Belgrano Station with the title: “Nobody takes care of what is not named”, where they also Topics that concern the group will be discussed, such as the criminalization, exposure and transmission of HIV, the protection of people with the disease and their right to confidential information.
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Today marks International Pride Day, for a world without discrimination, prejudice and violence towards the LGTBIQ+ community ✊ pic.twitter.com/OtQVEp4XM8– Municipality of Rosario (@MuniRosario) June 28, 2022
In the city of Rosario, a demonstration ran for several blocks between Plaza San Martín and the Monument to the Flag, where a document was read and there was an artistic show. There, the trans activist Pamela Rocchi noted: “We gather to demand that transvestites stop and to ask for a Law of reparation for post-dictatorship transvestite transvestite survivors” and recalled that “in Santa Fe there has been historical reparation since 2018 for trans victims of the dictatorship, but we know that the persecution from the State continued until 2010 because there were Contraventional Codes and it was forbidden to be trans in the province.”
Santa Cruz
A flag with the colors pink, white and light blue brought together those who paid tribute to the LGBTI+ community this Tuesday afternoon on the promenade of the Cultural Center of Río Gallegos with the memory of two deceased young people who did not reach their 40th birthday.
Judith Chocobar, sister of a young woman murdered and dismembered in September 2015, read the official document of the day in which she warned that “discrimination still exists. The vulnerability and violation of the rights of the compañeras, especially trans women, continues to exist“.
Sarita Ferrofino, the mother of Lorena Cruz who died in 2020 at the age of 37, wrote the name of the young transgender woman on the giant flag before the tour they took through the central streets of the city and said she was “proud of my daughter. I was always proud of my daughter since she was 14 years old who said she was effeminate” and asked the protesters “go ahead for all the girls who are not here and for those who come. Let there be a lot of respect and a lot of love, mainly from the family”.
mendoza
There was also this Tuesday afternoon a demonstration against “Travesticides, Trasfemicides and Transhomicides” at Kilometer 0, in Peatonal and San Martín, where among other demands “justice for Melody” was requested, a young trans woman shot to death in August 2020, in a red zone of Guaymallén by former police officer Darío Jesús Cháves Rubio, the only defendant in the file brought to trial.
The Mendoza government highlighted this Tuesday that “Mendoza is a pioneer in having a Record of Assistance for People of the LGBTQ+ collective, where fundamental indicators for effective assistance can be managed. 445 subjects of rights have already been registered in this program.”
Land of Fire
In Tierra del Fuego, the government organized the “Pride Festival” for this Tuesday night in the city of Rio Grande, with a space for “celebrate diversity“, in an event coordinated by the Undersecretary of Youth, the Secretary of Culture and the Secretary of Human Rights and Diversity destined to “all the diversities and dissidences of the province”, said government sources.
On the International LGBTI+ Pride Day, we participated in the screening of the film “Mía” by Javier Van de Couter, at Penitentiary Unit No. 4 in Ezeiza, Buenos Aires, and offered workshops to promote access to transvestite and transgender rights. . ?️??️⚧️#Pride2022 pic.twitter.com/oibJ41CXsx
— Ministry of Women, Gender and Diversity (@MinGenerosAR) June 28, 2022
“There will be live music by DJ Gian Escobar, while the Fuegian drag artist Rapsodia Pepparlust will perform,” they detailed.
Black river
In the Rio Negro city of San Carlos de Bariloche, the Diversity Council invited the community to participate in a debate film day to present the documentary “El puto unforgettable”, which narrates the life of the activist for the rights of homosexuals Carlos Jáuregui and the flag of pride was placed in different public institutions, such as the Education Council, the Deliberative Council and the Civic Center.
saint Louis
In the city of San Luis (also in the city of San Rafael, Mendoza) the same documentary was screened at the Microcinema of the local National University (UNSL) with the special participation of Marcelo Ferreyra, an architect and feminist activist who defends Sexual and Reproductive Rights. since 1987, first integrating the Argentine Homosexual Community and then Gays DC, one of the organizations promoting the First Pride March in the city of Buenos Aires.
In addition, the Carlos Jauregui Dissident Library and Archive will be inaugurated in the Weyes space, a space to learn about the works produced by members of the LGBTQI+ collective and the City Council held the discussion “20 Years Building Equality” with intergenerational members of the movement.
Jujuy
Members of the LGBTQ+ community from the north of the province and from localities in Bolivia held this Tuesday in La Quiaca the First International March of Women, Gender-Diversity and Pride to visualize their rights and demand greater equality without discrimination.
The demonstrators walked the streets of La Quiaca to the Horacio Guzmán bridge with posters, balloons and messages alluding to the feeling of pride in their gender identities and orientations.
Mayor Blas Gallardo valued the integration work between referents from La Quiaca and Villazón for this march, while the Deliberative Council of La Quiaca declared it of Public Interest.
Santiago del Estero
The Human Rights Secretariat organized the conference on “Depathologization of Sexual Orientations and Gender Expressions”, with the aim of “make sexual orientation visible and inform, from a scientific perspective to eradicate prejudices regarding the pathologization of it in the different social spheres, and even professionals that persist until today”.
The secretary of the area, Daniela Águila, said that “we still need to continue working on the issue”, since “we still have a long way to go to spread awareness, and I think this is a matter for everyone, everyone, that with an alliance between civil society organizations and governments, we are going to achieve it”.
