Round 800,000 individuals took half on this 12 months’s Pleasure parade in Mexico Metropolis.
The town administration stated on Sunday that this was “a historic turnout” for the LGBTQI+ group’s celebrations.
On Saturday afternoon, members marched by means of the centre of town for a number of hours. They demonstrated towards discrimination, social exclusion and violence based mostly on sexual orientation.
It was the forty seventh annual parade in Mexico Metropolis, this time underneath the motto “Variety with out Borders, Justice, Resistance and Unity.”
The English abbreviation LGBTQI+ stands for lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex individuals – and the plus signal is a placeholder for different identities and genders.
In 2024 Mexico was the second most harmful nation for this group in Latin America after Colombia, in accordance with a report by the Community With out Violence LGBTI.
With 80 circumstances, deadly acts of violence in Mexico rose by 23% year-on-year. The report says that at the least one LGBTQI+ particular person is murdered each 24 hours in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Hundreds of individuals march by means of Reforma Avenue to mark the LGBTQ+ Pleasure Parade. Carlos Tischler/eyepix through ZUMA Press Wire/dpa
