Argentine LGBT collectives organized the “Federal March of Anti-Fascist and Anti-Racist Pride” in rejection of President Javier Milei’s hate speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, in which he attacked the “LGBT agenda,” “nefarious gender ideology,” and “radical feminism,” and linked homosexuality to pedophilia.
Thousands of demonstrators rallied in Argentina’s capital Buenos Aires and in cities across the country in defence of minority rights and in protest at President Javier Milei’s tirades against "wokeism", feminism and other progressive ideals.
More than a hundred collectives and civil organizations gathered at the National Congress in Buenos Aires to march to the iconic Plaza de Mayo, where the Casa Rosada (seat of the government) is located. The colorful procession held aloft the rainbow flag and waved placards stating: "Not a step back".
Milei, a libertarian former economist sometimes compared to Donald Trump, dissolved the Ministry of Women, Gender and Diversity as well as the National Institute Against Discrimination, Xenophobia and Racism in his first year in office.
Argentina is one of nine Latin American countries to allow same-sex marriage, and Not a step back!
