With thousands of participants, the São Paulo LGBT+ Pride Parade led the issue of aging of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, queer, intersex, asexuals and other sexual and gender guidelines (LGBTQIA+) to the center of discussion and party. On Paulista Avenue completely full – the public estimation of 4 million people – the 17 electric trios paraded from 13h, heading to the city center.
Considered for years the biggest stop for diversity in the world, the event took the theme to the center of discussion for the first time in its 29 editions. The agenda was celebrated by activist Norivaldo Júnior, member of the National Council for the Rights of the Elderly, the Ministry of Human Rights and Citizenship, who accompanied the event with her husband, publicist Rodrigo Souza.
“When the board of the chart announced that the theme would be aging was a great joy for us from the Council. The LGBT community went through a gap during the 1980s and it lost much of its reference. Today we can do or try to make this generation have better old than mine,” he said.
“Unfortunately we have a generation, coming, which is very linked to the body issues and that returns us to the closet because it cannot see us, as old, as belonging to the movement. In a way they do not accept that they will reach my 62 years. She will go back to unbeaten, and make you pass everything that you often pass on your youth, that was to be expelled from home, not being accepted in a school, not to get work, to be hard work Age, LGBT Old Age, you go through this cycle again again. So the very large importance of this year’s parade to have an aging theme, ”said Nori, how the activist is known.
He and her husband are a couple of different generations, 62 and 35 years old. “We have been together for 14 years, we have an age difference of 27 years, and I think it does not matter the age difference, but if you have a love, if you have a affection, you have to think that love is construction. It takes time, patience and a lot of companionship,” said Rodrigo.
To the sound of electronic music and the beat of the fans, the parade brought together friends and couples of all ages, as well as families, in an environment of celebration and awareness. One of the first blocks was the families of transgender children, the Block Children and Adolescents Trans exist, which has been paraded for four years at the event. President of the non -governmental organization My trans art, Thamrys Nunes, 35, is the mother of a 10 -year -old trans child and an activist for children’s rights.
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“We come in a search to bring visibility, to show that trans children and adolescents exist, that we need rights, that our families are families like any other family, that our children are like any other child. We know that there is a movement there that insists on denying the existence of our daughters and children and insists that we do not need public policies, to say that we are dismalous families. Always for our trans children and adolescents, because if they need the future, the future begins with recognition, ”he said.
With a longer trajectory at the parade, Mey Ling has been with mobilization since 1996, coming since 2001 mounted. Today at the age of 45, he considers it important to continue resisting and make himself see in this context. “There is protest, has mobilization, and it is always a party. And mounted we have more visibility, draw more attention, has more photo, everyone wants to talk, everyone wants … then, when the person comes, we can open the biggest range, can represent, can protest, can put out.”
Debuting at the party, Argentine German Rocha, also mounted, paraded cheerful. In the old age, he finds it important to meet São Paulo and follow the fight for rights beyond his Buenos Aires, where he came with her husband and a friend to parade.
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“We came to participate in the party, to show that both in Argentina and Brazil, in many places, we have the same ideology, to support our rights and achievements, to seek more revolution and more struggle. Latin America will not be overcome,” he said.
Asked about activism for diversity in his country, he said: “Argentina has many rights, but we are sick with the president, who is terrible and embarrassed, but we continue to fight to preserve what we have built,”,
The state government mobilized 1,500 security agents, the very extension of the event and at the police stations. The authorities’ recommendation is to care for belongings and blockade of cell phones in case of theft or theft. Due to the event, health teams and transportation scheme were also reinforced.
