As each June 28th, the International LGBT Pride Day and a new anniversary – the 51st – of the episode that originated the fight for their rights is commemorated.
He June 28th year 1969, at bar Stonewall Inn, in New York, where the homosexual community met, the police suppressed fiercely to those who were there and arrested several of them.
In the middle of the raid, a group of transvestites, lesbians and gays faced the onslaught. The revolt, which lasted for several days, involved a strong organization to resist and resulted in dozens of wounded, wounded, detained and detained.
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However, despite the aggressions and violence experienced, they were encouraged to march against the actions of the police and demand for their rights on the streets.
At that time, and for the first time, the gay community He put in the center of the focus the need for their claims to be addressed and for sexual diversity to be respected by the authorities.
During the 1950s and 1960s, in U.SGays and lesbians had to face a legal system that was much more hostile to homosexuals than in many other countries. In fact, except Illinois, all states criminalized consensual homosexual sex between adults in the private sphere.
A year later, in 1970, the first gear spontaneous by the Gay pride in New York, which was later joined by other cities around the world.
In Argentina, for the gay pride march is held in November, as it honors the birth of the first group of sexual diversity in Latin America, which was two years before the episode of bar Stonewall Inn.
The symbols of the LGBT pride, the flag with the colors of the rainbow and the pink triangles, are a strong mark of these marches that become true parties.
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The basic notion of LGBT pride it is that no person should be ashamed of what they are, regardless of their biological sex, sexual-emotional orientation, their identity or their gender role.
Once those laws that penalized homosexual practices in much of the world were overcome, today it is called for decriminalization in the countries where it still remains and fights against the discrimination that still persists against the community.
Currently, requests are being made for the legalization of same-sex marriage, the establishment of homo-parental families (adoption of children by homosexual couples), respect for the sexual identity of transsexual people and their rights (legal change of sex and name or treatments doctors) and LGTBphobia (lesbophobia, homophobia, transphobia and biphobia) is denounced.
