Buenos Aires colors with the rainbow LGTBIQ a day of national mourning
The Argentine flag waves from Saturday morning to half-mast in all official buildings, the Government decreed national mourning after the finding of the submarine ARA San Juan, something that did not prevent the streets of the center of the capital are dyed with the colorful badge LGTBIQ.
The avenue of May stopped one more day its daily traffic to be filled with floats, flags and glitter, three symbols of the struggle for visibility of the LGTBIQ collective, which this year focused the twenty-seventh edition of its annual march on the rights of the population transsexual
"The life of a gay person, a trans person or a transvestite on the street is still hard, it is a matter of society, we are in a country where there is a lack of social policies that help them have a less complicated life" , defended in dialogue with Efe Lea Besse, a 23 year old girl who said she had been attending this event for years.
A trans work quota law was approved in the province of Buenos Aires in 2015, and establishes that 1% of posts in municipalities have to be occupied by transgender, transsexual or transvestite people.
Many groups believe that this law is not being fulfilled in the province and demand that the quota be national.
For Besse, it is a day of both struggle and celebration, but stressed that the march in this way is a "visibility of diversity" that transits the streets of Buenos Aires "without the need for music and standards."
"We have to fight for the rights acquired and for those that are left," concluded the young woman.
This Saturday, the Executive of Mauricio Macri, held a press conference in which, together with representatives of the Argentine Navy broadcast the preliminary part that the US company Ocean Infinity provided them with the expected news that they had managed to find the Ara San Juan, the submersible disappeared 366 days ago in the waters of the South Atlantic.
With the good news on their shoulders and before beginning the mourning for which the capital has already canceled the events and celebrations scheduled for the weekend, thousands of people danced to the rhythm of drums, divas of cumbia, pop and the electronics, and they showed without exception their sharp heels.
"It is very unfortunate that before the start of the G20 and the last day that the company was hired, they find the ARA San Juan, it is very suspicious.This government has a very strong symbolic hegemony and the support of the media, it seems that with these news will cover others, "Juan Manuel Caborda, another participant in the parade, told Efe.
In his opinion, "there is nothing that stops the desire, when there is desire there are no policies that stop it", a desire to show that "the capital is diverse".
"We are here to empower ourselves, to live in diversity so that we all have the same rights, to be one, without prejudice," he explained.
At 44, Caborda is an example of the celebration of the LGTBIQ Pride continues to gather crowds, although this year the groups of the internal organization of the event considered necessary to perform two marches, the first of which seven days ago hand in hand of the Homosexual Community of Argentina, the 100% Diversity and Rights group, as well as Trans Argentinas Women and the La Rosa Naranja Association.
However, this first march had to be canceled due to the storm that hit Buenos Aires last weekend.
