A group of activists and officials close to the Government laid a floral offering before the statue of the Liberator in a Caracas square. “We are here, June 28, International LGBTI Day (…) paying honors to the father of the country, Simón Bolívar (…) breaking the chains of discrimination, breaking the chains of homophobia, of inequality”
LGBTI activists in the country recalled this Tuesday, on the occasion of International Pride Day, the violence and discrimination suffered by this group in Venezuela, where they fight for rights that the rest of the population takes for granted.
“Don’t let the colors cloud us: Today we commemorate our struggles and survivals. Behind pride there is blood, pain and cruelty. Let’s not forget the 21 people who in 2021 were killed by hate. Not even the 4 victims in 2022,” the Somos Movement said on Twitter.
Along the same lines, the civil association Venezuela Igualitaria recalled that not all LGBTI people can “feel and live pride” due to prejudices and prohibitions such as those in force, which prevent transgender people from marrying a homosexual couple or changing their name.
Many of these people “are prisoners of fear, guilt and shame that society, through its institutions, has injected into us. For them, let us raise our voices so that one day prejudices cease to oppress them”, the organization pointed out on the same social network.
Meanwhile, the NGO Red Naranja stressed the need for Venezuela to promote public policies “with a focus on diversity, disaggregated statistics and the rectification of the image, name and sex/gender markers in records and identity documents.”
For their part, a group of activists and officials close to the government laid a floral offering before the statue of the Liberator Simón Bolívar in a Caracas square to show that they are “deeply patriotic and revolutionary,” said Isaura Guzmán, director of the Office for Diversity. Sexual of the Mayor’s Office of Caracas.
“We are here, June 28, International LGBTI Day (…) paying honors to the father of the country Simón Bolívar as Venezuelans, breaking the chains of discrimination, breaking the chains of homophobia, of inequality (… ), demanding our rights,” he said.
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Dilberly Rodríguez, activist and alternate legislator, who was at the event, said that today “is one more day” to demonstrate that the LGBTI population is not limited to its “identities, orientations or expressions.”
“On the contrary, we strengthen ourselves under the daily dynamics, under social interaction, under our responsibilities as citizens, and we show that we are companions capable of contributing, building, debating, capable of implementing transformative tools for a society of equals. ”, he asserted.
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