No big corporate sponsors or elaborate floats in Venezuela’s annual Pride Parade, just thousands of energetic youth adorned with colors and calling for LGBTQ rights.
On Sunday, June 30, the LGBTQ community gathered in Caracas to celebrate the 19th Annual Pride Parade. Young people from the barrio were, by far, the majority in this year’s celebration. They gathered, by the thousands, with home-made costumes and props, body paint and rainbow flags to sing, embrace, kiss and dance their way from Parque del Este to the party held in Zona Rental in central Caracas.
There were no private sponsors for this Pride Parade, but no one lamented the lack of corporate-sponsored spectacles and floats or expensive food and alcohol stands.
Pride March organizers also gathered signatures to demand that the National Constituent Assembly promote legislation to guarantee gender identity rights, parental rights for same-sex parents, and the inclusion of the LGBTQI in social programs and policies.
“If you read this, you are gay…”
Lesbian mother
“Your expectations of what is normal are not my fault.”
Creative Expressions
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Trans woman
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Tiuna El Fuerte animates Pride March
LGBTI youth loving the camera
Holding hands
A safe place for affection…
Mother shows support for her lesbian daughter.
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LGBTI community is also proud to be Venezuelan
Young couple offer “Free Kisses”
Creative Expression
Some marchers identified with PSUV
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TRANSgresoras
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“I’m 100% Hetero and I support the LGBTI community!”
Lesbian couple “Love is love”
Organizers
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Thousands gathered in Zona Rental for the Pride celebration.
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Celia Cruz made an appearance at this years Pride.
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Signatures collected for collective demands of LGBTQI community
Pride March, Av. Francisco Solano LĂłpez
“I didn’t know that loving and being yourself was a crime…”
Rainbow banners reigned in Pride March
A collective hug..
Venezuela Igualitaria
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Dancing in the streets
Source URL: Venezuelanalysis.com
