San Juan, Puerto Rico to Hold Gay Pride March

 "We gotta get out of this big closet in which we, of the cultural closet. In San Juan a hard time accepting that the neighbor, partner, friend, the spin can be gay, "said Daniel Olivares, one of the activists by the acceptance of sexual diversity, along with organizations such as the Inadi, La Glorieta , Approaching, San Juan awakens and others, organized for the next few days the first Gay Pride march in San Juan.
"With all due respect we want to prove that here we are, we are, we exist. And we want the government and which are not, know they can count on us as a collective, structured, "said Olivares.

"We have not decided the date, but if we know that is what we do. The march will go for freedom, from Government House to the Civic Center. It will be a Friday or Saturday, and it will be floats, carriages, lots of color, joy. We have an artistic sense, "he noted.

The march will be the first in San Juan, but has years of history, in Argentina and worldwide.

In Argentina, the march is held the first Saturday of November to commemorate the creation of Our World, the first gay group that operated in the country in 1967 - of all ages, to commemorate the event called Stonewall.

On June 28, 1969, a gay bar called Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village neighborhood in New York was raided by police. At that time, transvestites, gays and lesbians resisted the advance of the security forces.

A year later, about ten thousand people gathered outside the gates of Stonewall on Christopher Street. Spontaneously marched, down Fifth Avenue to Central Park. That was the first lesbian pride march, gay, transvestite, transsexual history.

Since then, hundreds of cities around the world have been joined in this celebration, at that time of struggle. Since 1992, gays, lesbians, transvestites and transsexuals march in Buenos Aires recalling that date.