Pride 2017 Map: This is how Argentina is progressing

From November until early December, LGBTQ+ Pride unfolds in the streets and squares of Argentina with marches, demonstrations, parties, fairs, and other activities. This open and collaborative map shows the locations and slogans of events in different places.

November 10, 2017

From November until early December, LGBTQ+ Pride unfolds in the streets and squares of Argentina with marches, demonstrations, parties, fairs, and other activities. This map shows the locations and slogans of the events in different places.

There are two demands that are repeated in all the mobilizations in the country: #StopTransvesticides and institutional violence against the LGBTIQ+ community.

If you know of any marches that aren't included, write to us at contacto@agenciapresentes.org and we'll add them to this open and collaborative map. You can also send us photos of the march, or tag us, and we'll share them on social media .

Why we march

The first LGBTQ+ Pride March in Argentina took place on July 2, 1992. It was called the 'Gay and Lesbian Pride March' and drew around three hundred people. Many of them wore masks to avoid public exposure in a homophobic society.

[READ MORE: LGBT Pride: Why it's celebrated]

The current marches take place in November in commemoration of the creation of the first Argentine homosexual movement, 'Nuestro Mundo' (1967).

Furthermore, in June and July, months when the world takes to the streets to celebrate International Pride Day (June 28, commemorating the Stonewall riots), the winter climate of Buenos Aires could compromise the health of people with immunodeficiencies in the marches of those times.

Now, every November, marches take place across the country. As Carlos Jáuregui said: “In a society that educates us to feel shame, pride is a political response.”

Photo: Macarena Haspert, march in Bahía Blanca (2016).

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