Under the slogan “If there are rights, let it be known,” thousands of people marched through downtown Montevideo on Sept. 26 in the 2025 Diversity March, one of the largest LGBTQ rights demonstrations in Latin America.

The mobilization took place against a political context marked by the recent return of a leftist government, led by President Yamandú Orsi, who has declared himself an ally of the community after a period in which organizations denounced setbacks.

The march, which started at Plaza Libertad and ended at Plaza 1er de Mayo, combined celebration, color, and festivity with concrete demands to move from discourse to the effective fulfillment of rights.

Nicolás Oreiro, the spokesperson for Colectivo Ovejas Negras, an Uruguayan LGBTQ rights group and the coordinator of the Divers

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