The LGTBI pride of Ecuador parades with pomp and celebrates its day in Guayaquil

Hundreds of activists from the LGTBI community of Ecuador They paraded this Saturday with pomp through several streets of the coastal city of Guayaquil (southwest), to celebrate Pride Day with a festival in which the advances in rights that this group has achieved were shown.

Although there have also been complaints against the violence and discrimination that this community still endures, according to several participants, the parade has been characterized by color, dance and sound.

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The march has traveled through several of the main streets of the center of Guayaquil, especially the popular 9 de Octubre avenue, and has concluded in the Parque del Centenario, where a stage has been installed for an artistic festival.

The “Pridefest” It has been a resounding party in which the lesbian, gay, transsexual, bisexual, intersexual groups and other groups of sexual diversity have shown their realities and joys.

Above all, there have been entrepreneurship initiatives, in which the LGBTI Chamber of Commerce of Ecuador is engaged, a process that provides employment opportunities for this community that has historically been discriminated against also in the workplace.

The parade has included several very colorful allegorical cars, some decorated with bird shapes and carrying delegates from the different groups that represent that community.

Hundreds of activists from the LGTBI community paraded through several streets to commemorate Pride Day with a festival that showed the advances in rights that this group has achieved, in Guayaquil (Ecuador). (EFE/Jhonatan Miranda/)

Likewise, the multicolored flag that represents sexual diversity and many posters with which the activists have demanded that society “tolerance and respect”.

Posters “against fear” have also been read and even a mother gave “free hugs”as a way of supporting young people who have decided “break the silence” and to people whose families do not accept their sexual orientation.

The Asociation “Silhouette X”the Ecuadorian Pride Federation, the Undersecretary of Diversities and the LGTBI Chamber of Commerce, among others, have been the organizers of this celebration that was even in danger of being canceled due to the social protests that took place in the country between the 13th and on June 30.

This march, followed by hundreds of onlookers, had just been planned a week ago, but was postponed due to the intense demonstrations against the cost of living, promoted mainly by the indigenous movement.

Source: Elcomercio