Thousands gathered in Buenos Aires on Saturday for Argentina’s 34th annual Pride March, which began at Plaza de Mayo and moved toward Congress under the slogan “Against hate and violence, more pride and unity.”

The daylong event featured music, art and entrepreneur fairs, turning the capital’s center into a celebration of diversity and resistance.

In a statement, organizers called for historical reparations for elderly trans and travesti people who survived state persecution, rejecting “poverty, exclusion, and death” as the fate of marginalized communities.

The march marked the second major demonstration of the year for Argentina’s LGBTQ movement, following February’s Federal Antifascist and Antiracist Pride March, which protested President Javier Milei’s remarks at the World Economic Forum in Davos, where he slammed “wokeism,” feminism, and other progressive ideals.

Milei sharply criticized “sick wokeism,” social welfare, feminism, identity politics, and the fight against climate change, adding that “in its most extreme versions, gender ideology constitutes plain and simple child abuse.”

After more than three decades of activism, participants said the movement continues to celebrate its progress while demanding renewed attention to violence and discrimination.

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