The LGBTQIA+ neighborhood took out the 14th Delhi Queer Pride Parade on Sunday.

The parade began from Barakhamba and concluded at Jantar Mantar.

”Delhi Queer Pride march, the place we dance, love, and rage on the streets of Delhi. We march to Jantar Mantar, at a time when even this single stretch of area supplied for the expression of democratic sentiments is below risk,” said an official assertion.

The assertion additional mentioned that they marched towards the alleged ”oppressive assaults and discrimination” towards the LGBTQIA+ neighborhood.

”We assume that authorized rights stay worthless, except we construct a tradition of acceptance for private expression, love in all its consensual kinds, throughout the obstacles of gender, caste, class, capacity, faith, area, and language which constrain us. ​​ ”We march for the suitable to find out our life selections, to construct our households, and for all queer individuals to have our elementary rights accepted and legally protected,” a spokesperson mentioned.

Dancing to drums and music, the individuals walked for greater than three hours to Jantar Mantar, holding banners studying “Equality for all” and “Queer and proud” slogans.

”We march towards regressive laws that targets transgender individuals, we demand reservations for our neighborhood individuals throughout establishments, coverage modifications to guard the neighborhood, and implementation of those ideas by the federal government. ”Our march can be towards the instigators of hatred, terror, (and to) denounce lynchings within the identify of caste, area, race, gender, and sexuality,” mentioned the spokesperson.

The Delhi Queer Pride Parade, which had greater than 1,000 individuals, comes simply over a month after the Supreme Court denied authorized recognition to same-sex marriages in India.

”Our march is essential for us, as we really feel that we even have the ‘proper to breathe’. We hardly get help from society or our relations,” a member of the LGBTQIA+ neighborhood mentioned.

Another member mentioned, ”See our march has so many various causes. We march in reminiscence of the individuals who misplaced their lives to the Covid pandemic, which disproportionately affected the queer and transgender individuals. We demand healthcare and dignity for all, towards discrimination by medical establishments.” They mentioned that their march was additionally towards the alleged discrimination in instructional establishments that results in suicides.

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