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A pride march against Milei’s tone and austerity
Several thousand people marched in Buenos Aires on Saturday for the annual LGBT+ pride march, marked by protests against the ultraliberal government of Javier Milei.
LGBT pride march in Buenos Aires, November 2, 2024.
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Beyond the festive background of a parade of floats, colorful outfits, a concert planned for the evening, slogans and slogans were aimed at the executive, as much for a climate of hostility denounced by some, as for budget cuts affecting, among other things, reproductive health, or HIV.
“No freedom without rights or public policies”, “No freedom with (budgetary) adjustment or repression” were the themes of the “Marcha del orgullo” 2024, which also called for “a comprehensive trans law and an anti -discrimination”.
“It’s a very special march because of the current context,” Lucas Gutiérrez, LGBT+ activist, told AFP. “In government, they utter insults against people of diversity without the slightest concern.”
He was referring in particular to the controversy caused in August by the Minister of Justice, Mariano Cuneo Libarona, who in a parliamentary committee said he rejected “the diversity of sexual identities which do not correspond to biology, they are subjective inventions”.
Gender, a “political stock in trade”
The Milei government, in power since December, has never made a secret of its hostility to feminism and gender issues, according to it a “political stock in trade”. In particular, he abolished the Ministry of Women, the Institute against Discrimination created in 1995, among other numerous cuts in the administration.
However, Milei himself, a “libertarian” as he describes himself, has assured in the past, in the name of the “freedom of the life project”, that he is in favor of unions between people of the same sex, a “contract which can be two, three or 50 if you want.
Ahead of the March, an NGO, the Front for the health of people with HIV, hepatitis and tuberculosis, denounced in the 2025 budget, currently under discussion, a 76% reduction in credits for the response to HIV, hepatitis viral, sexually transmitted infections.
In 2024 “due to the freeze on public purchases, we were faced with shortages of certain medicines, leading to forced changes in treatment, shortages of condoms, and a lack of reagents for (…) essential tests”, accused the NGO.
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