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Gay Travel: Tijuana Pride This Weekend |
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The 17th annual Tijuana LGBTI Pride March will step off on Saturday, June 23, at 5 pm. Presented by Tijuana's AIDS Assistance Fund, organizers say the event is a public demonstration to demand rights and respect for the LGBT community. First taking place in 1995 as a protest march, the event has grown from a small group of participants to several thousand.
Tijuana activist Alejandro Garcia and a few others organized the first Pride March in the city in 1995, just 4 years after a two popular gay bars, El Ranchero and Los Equipales, were raided by police.
Jesse Anguiano, a PhD candidate in Chicano/Latino studies at Michigan State University, who is researching how media from both sides of the border documented the raids, believes that these events catapulted Tijuana's LGBT community into action, emerging and consolidating into a unified force to fight for equality.
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June 22, 2012
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