This is the 33rd edition of the pride march that takes place in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, very particular: it is the first under the Milei government, which with its spokespersons replicate hate speeches from the State against sexual diversity. Thousands and thousands participate giving a political message repudiating a government that takes advantage of these speeches to also adjust public policies aimed at providing basic responses to the problems of the LGBTIQ+ population due to suffering structural discrimination.
Complaints against triple lesbicide in Barracas, cuts to response programs against HIV and sexually transmitted diseases, non-compliance with the gender identity law or dismissals of people who entered the State for trans job quotas appear on banners, flags and walk along the march adding different demands crossed by an adjustment that hits public education, public health and the income of the great majorities.
The Minister of Justice in charge of gender areas, Mariano Cúneo Libarona, even said in Congress “we reject the diversity of sexual identities that do not align with biology,” directly denying sexual diversity. These messages then reproduce and legitimize social violence against sexual diversity, as happened with the triple lesbicide, which is why justice is demanded and organizations point out the responsibility of the State.
The march called by the Organizing Commission, made up of different sexual diversity, political, social and Human Rights organizations, maintains as its main slogans “There is no freedom without rights or public policies”, “There is no freedom with adjustment and repression” and “Comprehensive Trans Law and Anti-Discrimination Law now!”
The organizations that are part of the Unity Left Front raise the need to unite the fight against hate speech and the government’s reactionary policies against sexual diversity to all fighting processes such as that of the university movement or health workers. Fights that question the government’s adjustment and where you can glimpse the speculations of parties such as radicalism or sectors of Peronism that propose channeling them into the parliamentary debate on the Budget for next year, while the attacks happen today, affecting thousands and millions.
That is why they called to mobilize in a column independent of the State, the different governments and the churches for: Down with the adjustment and repression plan of Milei and the governors. Enough hate crimes. Money for health and education, not for the IMF. Down with the genocide in Palestine.
The participation of thousands and the prospect of more attacks from the government, which is preparing to approve the 2025 Budget by announcing more cuts with all its accomplices in Congress, raises the need to organize, debate from below how to impose an alternative to adjustment and the reactionary politics against sexual diversity.
Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com
