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June 28, 1969, marked a milestone in the history of the people who are part of the LGBTIQ+ community. The Stonewall riots in New York City were the response to the system of oppression that subjected sexually diverse people to repressive laws that criminalized sexual orientations and non-normative gender identities.
These demonstrations triggered others in the United States and in different latitudes. People of diverse sexual orientations organized to go out and proudly demand dignified and equal treatment. Mexico was no exception. In the first march in our country, held in June 1978 in Mexico City, people from the Homosexual Liberation Front participated with the aim of transforming people’s reality. Slogans such as “Without political freedom, there is no sexual freedom” marked the beginning of a movement that spread throughout the nation.
Making a historical memory and remembering events and characters who fought to eradicate the system that has stigmatized us is transcendental; we remember why we talk about Pride when we go out every June to raise our voices.
The progress we have made from June 28, 1969, to the present has been significant but insufficient to achieve full rights; there are still situations that we must transform from the rainbow. As long as criminalization, pathologization, hate crimes, restriction of access to human rights due to sexual orientation and gender identity, violence, and other expressions of hatred exist, we will keep going out to raise our voices with Pride.
Pride implies that people can stop feeling ashamed of themselves because of their sexual orientation and gender identity. Pride implies putting on the table that we are diverse people and that, within that diversity, we deserve dignified treatment and access to the same rights in whatever areas of our lives.
The day that no one has to come out of the closet will be the day that Pride is transformed. For this reason, from the Center for the Recognition of Human Dignity, we invite you that if you are a person from the LGBTIQ+ community, live it with pride, and if you are not part of it, join us and question the heteronormative system that has oppressed us for centuries.
Authors: Daniel Mata Morales (CRDH campus Guadalajara) and Leslie Renia Rangel (CRDH Tecmilenio)
Translation by: Daniel Wetta
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This article from Observatory of the Institute for the Future of Education may be shared under the terms of the license CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 
