In photos: 8th Transdiverse and Pride March in Villa 31
A storm of pride swept through Villa 31 during the 8th Transdiverse and Pride March. Residents and community groups denounced the harassment of working-class neighborhoods by Jorge Macri's government and demanded an end to hate crimes.
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina. The 8th Trans and Pride March in Villa 31 took place on Saturday in the streets of the working-class neighborhood of Buenos Aires. A week before the Pride March in Buenos Aires, scheduled for November 7, organizations and activists from the gender and sexual diversity movement, the informal economy, social, labor, and human rights groups called for a mobilization against the institutional harassment by the government of Jorge Macri. They marched demanding an end to hate crimes and the murders of trans and travesti people, calling for "Lesbicides Never Again" and comprehensive reparations for trans people.
“Neighborhoods are not for sale, dignity is not for sale, and pride is defended in the streets!” declared the organizers. They dubbed this march “Pride Storm,” in contrast to “Black Storm.” These are the names given to the operations that the Buenos Aires City Government has been carrying out in the Villa 31, 21-24, Carbonilla, Fraga, Rodrigo Bueno, Mitre, 15 (Ciudad Oculta), 20 (Villa Lugano), Inta, Bermejo, Mugica, 1-11-14, Cildañez, Piletones, and Fátima slums. Residents have been denouncing that behind the political marketing of “order” and “security” that the city government tries to sell, there is a policy of exclusion, dispossession, and intimidation of its inhabitants.
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The Transdiverse and Pride March in Villa 31 has been held since 2019, and each year it develops its own unique characteristics and increasingly intersectional political demands. This Saturday, the organizers and those who came from other neighborhoods called for the march because: “In the City of Buenos Aires, the government of Jorge Macri intends to advance against our working-class neighborhoods with unprecedented institutional harassment. Faced with persecution and dispossession, we, as a community, are organizing. We respond to their violence with struggle, visibility, dignity, and pride. We come together in the streets to celebrate resistance and demand all our rights.”
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