March unpaved
( Column # 5 published in 2008 in the late portal Ekovoces News )
I want that umbrella that has the colors of the rainbow!, cries one of her friends while the floats are parked in the Plaza Francia. The march ended, but the party just begun. Many are organized to continue in other places, someone suggests going to the pub fashion. Way to the scene, they think of the few achievements of that community and has little sense to hold a march in which one walks through a land still sandy.
Last year I participated for the first time in the Gay Pride march. Days before I was invited to the main NGO that defends the rights of homosexuals, bisexuals and transsexuals. I watched videos of previous hikes and found that the picturesque and lacked abundant ideological. Nevertheless, I decided to go. I meet a group of friends in the Champ de Mars to join the march. A final invitation hours allowed me to participate in the event mounted on a float.
Several people have criticized my decision. They said it was silly to hold a day of "gay pride" because it made no sense to be proud of sexual orientation, whatever. Then went on to say that it was pointless to participate in a march to attend only the characters "scandalous" community (read, drag queens). I raised an eyebrow and replied that drag queens were as a representative and fun of gay culture, but they were not alone and needed the presence of people who did not practice the transformation to dispel the stereotype that it is all visible in the community. Finally, I said the march had no effect, he had no purpose. I said that every participant gave the place its own sense. In my case, I believed it was necessary to make visible, in a society such as Lima had to demonstrate that the community exists and that this would result in the gradual acceptance of different sexual orientations to the heteronormative. Now I think I was wrong.
As I said, "marché" in a float. From there I heard the support of spectators who accompanied the route waving flags multicolor and if you really were part of the march. I also heard the insults of disrespectful people, backward and ignorant. I saw so many drag queens as people who do not practice the transformer. I heard several groups shouting speeches and held signs with slogans which marked an ideology. I saw people masked the fact that respect, but do not share (I can not make sense to surface in a visible place without your identity). Finally, when it was over, I felt that the march is a celebration that lacks the strength to mark a milestone in the history of the community.
That's what motivates me now reflect on the true meaning of underway. In countries that are more advanced in terms of LGBT rights, progress can and should be a celebration, but can not stay here alone in that. I've always felt that the Peruvian LGBT community is not strong, that fear and segregation within the groups themselves do not open the way to reach specific goals, but the diluted over time without achieving anything. The same applies to the march. Is performed for several years, but has accomplished something with it? Is it useful to take to the streets and march intangible objectives, by laws that take forever to be approved because only a minimal sector of the community plays in the field of legal, visible and what is really risky? Not encourage violence, but to the action, but action that displays a result. Let us be us so we can see justice for the people fired from their jobs or abused in any way because of their sexual orientation. Or that couples composed of same-sex couples can access the same rights (and duties) that heterosexual couples who are married.
In Peru there is nothing to celebrate. The screams Pride voiceless protest banners then go to the trash and moves along a path which is not even paved. Hello Goodbye
( Column # 5 published in 2008 in the late portal Ekovoces News )
I want that umbrella that has the colors of the rainbow!, cries one of her friends while the floats are parked in the Plaza Francia. The march ended, but the party just begun. Many are organized to continue in other places, someone suggests going to the pub fashion. Way to the scene, they think of the few achievements of that community and has little sense to hold a march in which one walks through a land still sandy.
Last year I participated for the first time in the Gay Pride march. Days before I was invited to the main NGO that defends the rights of homosexuals, bisexuals and transsexuals. I watched videos of previous hikes and found that the picturesque and lacked abundant ideological. Nevertheless, I decided to go. I meet a group of friends in the Champ de Mars to join the march. A final invitation hours allowed me to participate in the event mounted on a float.
Several people have criticized my decision. They said it was silly to hold a day of "gay pride" because it made no sense to be proud of sexual orientation, whatever. Then went on to say that it was pointless to participate in a march to attend only the characters "scandalous" community (read, drag queens). I raised an eyebrow and replied that drag queens were as a representative and fun of gay culture, but they were not alone and needed the presence of people who did not practice the transformation to dispel the stereotype that it is all visible in the community. Finally, I said the march had no effect, he had no purpose. I said that every participant gave the place its own sense. In my case, I believed it was necessary to make visible, in a society such as Lima had to demonstrate that the community exists and that this would result in the gradual acceptance of different sexual orientations to the heteronormative. Now I think I was wrong.
As I said, "marché" in a float. From there I heard the support of spectators who accompanied the route waving flags multicolor and if you really were part of the march. I also heard the insults of disrespectful people, backward and ignorant. I saw so many drag queens as people who do not practice the transformer. I heard several groups shouting speeches and held signs with slogans which marked an ideology. I saw people masked the fact that respect, but do not share (I can not make sense to surface in a visible place without your identity). Finally, when it was over, I felt that the march is a celebration that lacks the strength to mark a milestone in the history of the community.
That's what motivates me now reflect on the true meaning of underway. In countries that are more advanced in terms of LGBT rights, progress can and should be a celebration, but can not stay here alone in that. I've always felt that the Peruvian LGBT community is not strong, that fear and segregation within the groups themselves do not open the way to reach specific goals, but the diluted over time without achieving anything. The same applies to the march. Is performed for several years, but has accomplished something with it? Is it useful to take to the streets and march intangible objectives, by laws that take forever to be approved because only a minimal sector of the community plays in the field of legal, visible and what is really risky? Not encourage violence, but to the action, but action that displays a result. Let us be us so we can see justice for the people fired from their jobs or abused in any way because of their sexual orientation. Or that couples composed of same-sex couples can access the same rights (and duties) that heterosexual couples who are married.
In Peru there is nothing to celebrate. The screams Pride voiceless protest banners then go to the trash and moves along a path which is not even paved. Hello Goodbye
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