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Parade. Maybe or not?

It is known that the Pride Parade is one of the most challenged actions of the LGBT community, and that reality is no coincidence, since it is this event the one that represents us as lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (and allies). We are sinners and sick according to those who express their disagreement and discomfort to the LGBT community and demands.

 

 
Public and freely express who one is should be simple in a normal state with a constitution that protects equal rights of all its inhabitants, as well as the freedom of expression of the one’s image and personality. But it's not like that. For some being yourself is a routine, while for others it is a potential cause of violence that may end in murder. Is it morally right to support violence? Is it correct to support death? People claiming to be for-life continue walking with their countless contradictions. Killing people. Killing us, literally.
 
Certain groups and individuals, under the guise of the right to freedom of expression, unashamedly violate people and LGBT groups. They say and do with us what they learned from a chauvinist and homophobic culture, and that goes from not legislating or denying to implement public policies for LGBT people, to shouting some other expletives on the street (because one is more macho when rejects, mocks and exercises violence on and what is 'feminine' and best when it is in public).
 
Marginalization includes everything denying our causes and what we are.

Parade? The short answer is yes.

Parade until all violence against LGBT people is over. Until the world understands that LGBT people are equal human beings in dignity and rights.

 

Live performers, craft fair and many colors filled the Plaza de la Libertad

Under the leadership of the renowned actress and showgirl Barbara Cibils, Andrea Valobra, Mothership, Lil'cake Dj, Loma Palma Blues Version, Fabu, Folklore the Street, and Amado Sarabia they shared with everyone the best music for this celebration of love and equality. (See pictures)

 

The gray city is flooded with colors

'' Not much more to say other than asking that you all join the banner of diversity, join the banner of equality that is the flag of the rainbow, and go out to march once a year as always do, to flood the gray city of the colors that represent us and we '' said Simon Cazal, opening and welcoming the event.
 
The specific claim of the Parade was equality, love and the rights of all families, which responds to a particular reality for LGBT people around the world.
 
'' ... This year we have a particularity, being outside in the street and representing the LGBT community, lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenders in this country, to go out, to demand equality full rights, to demand to be treated as citizens and full citizens of Paraguay, it has a special meaning because we are facing a worldwide scenario in which people are scared of the fact that gays, lesbians, trans and bisexual are effectively equal to the rest, '' continued the leader.
 
The slaughter in orlando, the invisibilization of key populations in high-level meetings and the political statement, the death of several other partners and colleagues around the world, make a turning point in the global outlook on rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people.
 
''This Parade is the opportunity to meet, to be visible and proud of what we are. To demonstrate courage, love, joy and desire for a more just and equal society for all without distinction, and to celebrate the pride of being lesbian women . We say no to chauvinism and violence and yes to the cultural liberation of lesbians. The events happening worldwide now makes us to take the streets to say “this is enough” but with joy and love, '' said Monica Encina, director of Lesvos.
 
'' ... It ends here, with you, with us. We say: Enough" Simon said in a moment of his speech, minutes before leaving.

The child looks and wants

"The child looks and wants" is a famous phrase that came to life on social networks during these months of LGBT rebellion. It is a Paraguayan adaptation of the famous webcomic “don’t look at them, Ricky” that alludes to an alleged situation in which children when seeing an expression understood as gay or LGBT, they will automatically become one.
 
This fear, fueled by homophobia and cultural and institutionalized sexism, is an adult excuse (adult-centered and irresponsible therefore) that denies children the right to be free and hence happy.

 

 

Simon Cazal, before announcing the start of the march through the streets of the Paraguayan capital, said '' ... that is the reason we go out, that is why we’re protesting, for all those children seeing and wanting, so that they see and want in freedom. So that they do not suffer what we suffered to be here resilient, happy and above all, equal to the rest of the people, even in spite of them. ''
Meanwhile, Monica Encina said that "people, whatever their age, want to be themselves without discrimination and nothing else. Many hide their personalities because of the remarks. It isn’t necessary to see in order to want what is good for oneself. Education has a lot to do and we should think of sex education for everyone and not "what an LGBT person can do to children" Society always wants to impose thoughts, but there are people like we who fight to eliminate impositions and start being ourselves".

 
These statements, while demystifying fears that children become LGBT people, reaffirm the social commitment of the organization to the human rights of children and adolescents. SOMOSGAY is an organization recognized as an advocate for children's rights, children and adolescents by the National Secretariat for Children and Adolescents in November 2014 (http://bit.ly/29DHB8S).

We said it’s enough and we went out to protest. And we will continue doing so.