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Once a year, Santo Domgo hosts the DR’s biggt Pri Para, where drag queens, gays, lbians and all members of the rabow take over the streets of the Colonial Zone and walk wh their rabow flags held high.

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In recent years, they helped create nstutnal protectns for LGBT people, lnched a film ftival at a prtig natnal venue, and spired the untry’s first openly gay ndidate to n for polil office. It has stggled for years to overe the ep homophobia that pervas Domin society and pels LGBT people to hi their inti.

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In the 1990s, turned s attentn to unterg homophobia and champng the human rights of LGBT people—undnted by setbacks experienced along the way. In 2003, spe lack of a perm, ASA and other LGBT anizatns the untry held the first-ever Domin gay pri para—a humble eveng march around the cy wh one flag and jt ne vehicl.

Denied their perm aga the followg year, RevASA—which stands for Red Voluntars Amigos Siempre Amigos (“Volunteer Network of Friends Forever Friends”)—and s supporters fiantly scend drov on a park where gay men ed to socialize.

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The next month, the ernment closed most of the gay bars the cy. In 2016, Deivis beme the first openly gay Domin polician to seek elected office. “They said, ‘Wow, the gay guys are really brave, ’” Deivis said.

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