Update 21:40, February 1, 2025
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The Argentines left the streets on Saturday afternoon for the federal anti-racist and anti-fascist march. Rivières of demonstrators tightening rainbow fans, waving lighting rockets and dancing on protest trucks have sank into the streets of Buenos Aires, Tucumán and more than 100 other cities and cities of the country and the big cities of the whole world.
The protest was led by the LGBTQI + community in the country, but it was explicitly intersectional, encompassing marginalized groups from all horizons.
The march was a response to President Javier Milei’s speech at the 2025 World Economic Forum, in which he assimilated Queer to children’s abuse, claiming that femicide has put women’s lives on men and migrants accused in Europe of crime.
Micaela Pérez, from Matanza, is an activist with transvestite-Trans activist group, Las históricas. (Unlike its direct English translation, the Argentinian word transvestite is a gender identity carried with pride.) Pérez survived the dictatorship and fought for LGBTQIA rights, despite its imprisonment on several occasions.
She recalled that the transvestite-The Trans Community has long denied access to fundamental rights such as education, health care and fair access to jobs. Now she believes, the Queer community will plan to request the support of international rights institutions, if necessary.
“This is an anti-right homophobic state that plays cheap policy with our laws,” she said. “We live from memory. This is why we will come out (in March) as much as we owe. »»
‘Nunca Musk’
Milei’s statements were only the last in a series of comments according to which the senior figures from Milei Libertad Avanza The government has done against the rights of women, queer, immigrants and other groups.
He spoke only a few days after the inauguration of US President Donald Trump. Milei attended the ceremony, during which Trump also comments against trans people, migrants and other marginalized groups.
Many signs during the demonstration rejected – or laughed at – Trump and Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of X and Tesla who now heads the Ministry of Effectiveness of Trump. Trump’s allies said it was partly inspired by Milei’s austerity program. Milei, for his part, noisily defended musk in a post X after being accused of having made two consecutive Nazi greetings on the day of the inauguration.
Some people wore pink baseball caps that read “Make Argentina Gay Again”, a slogan that was scribbled on banners and posters strewn throughout the procession.
A sign, written in the police of the important post-dictate rights report Nunca Más (Never again), read Musc Nunca (Never musk).
Carola Escolar, an English queer teacher at the University of Buenos Aires, walked with his union. “There were a lot of people in the group of our union,” she said. “The anti-fascist, the anti-racist and the LGBTQA + really cause people (…), that gives you energy to see people react. When you hear the president’s comments in Davos, they are not only at home. »»
The Bravío demonstration expressed its concern that the cancellation of progress in Argentina could have a training effect in the region. “Argentina has always been a lighthouse of LGBTQ +rights, since the law on equality of marriage and the law on gender identity,” she said. “We cannot go back 15, 25, because it means paving the way to other governments to eliminate the protections of their people.”
Demonstrations have taken place throughout Argentina and several other countries, including Mexico, Spain, Italy, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. In Buenos Aires, demonstrators had to walk from Congress to Plaza de Mayo at 4 p.m. – but started to meet shortly afternoon.
In Tucumán, a huge walk started on the Plaza Urquiza. Around 7 p.m., the demonstrators walked towards Plaza Independencia, where the governor’s house, led by local queer community, and social leaders and leftist activists, is located. There were songs against Milei, comparing him to the dictatorship, as well as to Governor Osvaldo Jaldo, a cooperative peroneist politician with Milei since his entry into office.
A assembly that made balloon
“I hope this march will be a celebration, a collective cry against fascism and a turning point to repel this political project which tries to exterminate us because life is in danger, but we are alive, organized and ready to defend it “Said Alejandra Rodríguez, transfeminist activist of the LGBTQIA + Buenos City anti -fascist assembly, before walking.
The demonstration was decided by popular vote a week earlier in an LGBTQIA + anti -fascist meeting open to Parque Lezama. The assemblies held simultaneously across the country put their own demonstrations on February 1 on the calendar.
Rodríguez said to Herald The organizers were surprised by the magnitude of the answer, explaining that he started with a small meeting of friends and activists in Parque Lezama on the day of Milei speech and quickly reached thousands of people in the same place as Two days later.
“There were health workers, students, scientists, sex workers, artists, teachers, retirees, memory workers and human rights sites, a whole range of struggles and struggles and a range of struggles and conflicts that said ‘Enough, Milei!’ “” She said.
“The fight for our anti -fascist and anti -racist march LGBTQIA + Pride March is also for society as a whole, this March which has the support and participation of a huge extent of affected social sectors.”
Assembly speakers highlighted the intersectionality and called for a large coalition to fight against fascism. Many human rights groups and organizations, in turn, had shown support for the March of Saturday.
“We call on people to descend in the streets to condemn this government which confronts, represses, offensive, takes place, repaired and hands on sovereignty,” the mothers of Plaza de Mayo said in a statement. “To defend our jobs, our wages, our freedom and the right to food, health and free sexual orientation.”
Author and activist Marlene Wayar urged people to attend an interview on the radio station Futureock: “It’s time to be anti -fascist and leave. Go! In the end, all these little speeches will be lost and will be summarized in an aerial photo that indicates to the world: where is Argentina going? To the fascist Sh * t or not? This is the moment of anti -fascist pride. »»
Juan Décima contributed Tucumán’s reports
