#Pride2019 Hundreds of thousands marched in Mexico City chanting "To be is to resist"
This Saturday, June 29, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets of Mexico City to celebrate the 41st LGBT+ Pride March under the slogan "To be is to resist."
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By Milena Pafundi
This Saturday, June 29, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets of Mexico City to celebrate the 41st LGBT+ Pride March under the slogan "To Be Is to Resist." This phrase pays homage to the raid that occurred in Mexico in 1901, known as " the dance of the 41 ," when the police arrested 41 "faggots," "transvestites," and "sodomites," as the press labeled them, in the first LGBT+ media event in Mexico.
The parade route started at the Angel of Independence and proceeded along Paseo de la Reforma to the Zócalo, continuing along Juárez and Madero streets until reaching the central plaza. There, two stages were set up, featuring performances by artists such as Javiera Mena, DJ Guapis, Zemmoa, La Bruja de Texcoco, and Ophelia Pastrana, among others. Another stage was located at the Glorieta de Insurgentes roundabout.
From 10 a.m., people began organizing into columns, and the march began at noon. After 8 p.m., the columns were still entering the Zócalo. Some of the groups and organizations that participated were: Trans Families Network, Center for Support of Trans Identities AC, Tiresias Dollhouse AC, Yaaj México, Nicaraguan Youth, and Muxe of Oaxaca.
Between 2013 and 2017, at least 381 LGBT+ people were murdered. Mexico ranks second in the world for hate crimes motivated by homophobia, after Brazil, according to data from INDESAL, 2018.
🇲🇽 #Pride2019 [NOW] “I’m marching so that this moves forward and LGBT rights become a reality. I’m marching with YAAJ, who are currently fighting very hard against so-called conversion therapies, which are acts of torture.” pic.twitter.com/OCZ9M6gl6H
— Agencia Presentes (@PresentesLGBT) June 29, 2019
🇲🇽 #Pride2019 In Mexico City, activist @KENIACUEVAS3 sings “Neither cis, nor trans, nor one more death” among hundreds of thousands of people marching on a historic afternoon. pic.twitter.com/CU4pdHtMdb
— Agencia Presentes (@PresentesLGBT) June 29, 2019
🇲🇽 #Pride2019 [NOW] “For trans youth, with the support of your parents, everything is easier because you don't care what others say. I march for my rights and because there shouldn't be labels.” pic.twitter.com/NXlA8NWmq5
— Agencia Presentes (@PresentesLGBT) June 29, 2019
“We are marching so that children and adolescents can be visible, so that transsexuality exists from an early age.”
"I've come to support my daughter, to tell her that I love her and will always support her; she is a trans girl."
“I have never seen so many trans flags together in my life, it makes me happy and moves me to tears, we must continue to resist because outside of this day they are killing us and the reality for us is terrible, that is why it is important that we are marching together,” Luisa Almaguer told Presentes.
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