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[IN PHOTOS] 26th LGBTIQ+ Pride March in Buenos Aires
Around 200,000 people took to the streets of Buenos Aires to celebrate LGBTQ+ rights. This photo gallery shows how the 26th Pride March unfolded, from Plaza de Mayo to the National Congress.
Homophobic attack as Pride March disperses: one arrested
Around 8:30 p.m., half a block from Plaza del Congreso, three men attacked people leaving the demonstration. One of them struck 33-year-old Juan Víctor González in the head with a hockey stick. After midnight, the young man was released from the hospital with seven stitches. The assailant was arrested.
This is how they marched in Buenos Aires to claim LGBTIQ pride.
The 26th LGBTIQ+ Pride March mobilized around 200,000 people from Plaza de Mayo to the National Congress in Buenos Aires. With slogans like "Stop the femicides of transvestites, transsexuals, and transgender people, stop institutional violence. Pride to defend the rights we have won," the march began at noon…
"We have been proudly together for 26 years."
GENERAL SPEECH – PRIDE MARCH 2017 Lee Kalim Soria (RITTA): Twenty-six years ago, we gathered for the first time in this square to make diversity visible. We proudly showed ourselves as we were and as we wanted to be. We proudly responded to the shame that they had tried to impose on us for centuries. We also proudly responded to…