Breathe
By Diana J. Torres
Well, it's okay, pride is over and we can go back to our normal lives of normal people who do normal things in and out of bed. For the rest of the year it will be perfectly acceptable to use "puto" as an insult, nothing will be done to prevent and stop the bullying of diverse children in schools, we will continue to be harassed in the street and in nightclubs, there will be access to violent conversion therapies, Mexico will continue to be the second country in the world in transfeminicide and I'll stop the list because I really want to talk about something else.
The truth is that I am not so pessimistic and pessimistic as to believe that with Pride celebrations and marches nothing is achieved, but, in reality, the real advances that have taken place in the fight against discrimination against non-heterosexual people happen on a daily basis and in everyday life, throughout the year. A few days ago I saw a publication by Laurel Miranda in which she stated that, for example, most transphobic people do not know any trans people in person and that when they have access to them, their opinions are often modified for the better.There is so much poison that patriarchal ideology has been injecting into the minds of the gang for centuries that in these times the only antidote is simply to get out of ignorance and those obsolete beliefs. And honestly I'm not so sure that filling the city with gay or other similar flags for a month a year will do the trick.
