In the 1980s, Mexi’s Gay Rights Movement Was Fractured and Two Different March Emerged. Its Legacy Offers Lsons for Today.
Contents:
- MARCHA GAY EN CDMX 2022. ¿CUáNDO , CUáL LA TA, HORAR Y QUE ARTISTAS TáN VADOS?
- ORGULLO GAY CIUDAD MéXI
- FOTOS OCTAVA MARCHA GAY LGTB MAZATLáN SALOA MéXI 2016
- SE REALIZARá LA GRAN MARCHA GAY PRI LA CDMX TE 24 JUN N LA PRENCIA VARS FAMOSOS
MARCHA GAY EN CDMX 2022. ¿CUáNDO , CUáL LA TA, HORAR Y QUE ARTISTAS TáN VADOS?
* marcha gay mexico 2014 *
While same-sex acts had been technilly legal Mexi sce the late 19th century, dividuals who intified as jotos, vtidas, lbianas, homosexual, travtis, mujercos, and bisexual (terms that refer to people who engaged same-sex acts and/or qutned genr expectatns, and do not map perfectly to today’s LGBTQ tegori the Uned Stat) faced ostracizatn om fay and iends and harassment, arrt, and extortn by police via public cency laws.
ORGULLO GAY CIUDAD MéXI
La Marcha Gay en la CDMX 2022 el 25 jun 2022. Va l Ángel la Inpenncia hacia el Zólo palo. Che el rtel. * marcha gay mexico 2014 *
Wealthy gays gathered private hom or clubs wh expensive entry fe. Some searched out hookups wh poor gay men bars or on street rners, slummg what they lled the “guetos lumpen” or “lumpen ghettos. ” Poor homosexual, pecially the vtidas or cross-drsg men, engaged sex work.
The Mexi Cy police knew where to fd them too, and subjected gay and/or cross-drsg men to verbal harassment and razzias (raids) at bars. But jt as past gay social life had been class-stratified, so was early anizg. Cosmopolan middle- and upper-class queers traveled to New York Cy 1969 the wake of the Stonewall Rts and to Europe to meet members of the French ont homosexuel d’actn révolutnnaire.
Inspired, they returned to Mexi and formed the Frente Liberación Homosexual Méxi (Homosexual Liberatn Front of Mexi, or FLH).
FOTOS OCTAVA MARCHA GAY LGTB MAZATLáN SALOA MéXI 2016
Some worried further that takg their queer activism public would alienate them om their ras other activist circl, who often saw homosexualy as irrelevant to polil anizg—or worse, bourgeois and anti-revolutnary. In 1978, they branched off to create the Frente Homosexual Acción Revolucnaria (The Homosexual Front of Revolutnary Actn, FHAR) and joed a march celebratg the Cuban Revolutn—markg the first time an openly queer ntgent marched for change on Mexi Cy streets. The followg year FHAR joed forc wh Lambda, a Trotskyist gay liberatn group, and the lbian-femist Oikabeth to anize Mexi Cy’s first marcha ullo homosexual—or gay pri march.
SE REALIZARá LA GRAN MARCHA GAY PRI LA CDMX TE 24 JUN N LA PRENCIA VARS FAMOSOS
Poster om the First Marcha Orgullo Homosexual.
The activists argued about the meang of homosexualy, the role of travtis (cross drsers) the movement, the appropriatn of homophobic slurs, and how bt to prent their movement the world and mand rpect for their rights. When workg-class-aligned activists—whose alns clud sex workers and chavos banda—appropriated slurs and exprsed their queerns flamboyantly, they put themselv at odds wh lbian groups, who argued that cross-drsg gay men and transvt ma a ridicule of cis-women.