Mexico City Pride

Mexico City Pride
A float in the 2016 Mexico City Pride Parade
Frequency	Annual
Location(s)	Mexico City, Mexico
Years active	1979-present

Mexico City Pride is an annual LGBT pride event held in Mexico City, Mexico. The event, which is the largest Pride event in the country,^[1] has been held annually since 1979.

Since Mexico City's legalization of same-sex marriage in 2010, a mass wedding ceremony has been held for same-sex couples prior to the start of the event's pride parade.^[2]

History

The first pride event in Mexico City was held in June 1979.^[3] The 1980 march was scheduled for June 28, 1980, to coincide with the anniversary of the Stonewall Protests.^[4]

In 1983, two separate Pride marches were held on June 25. One was a serious "traditional" leftist march, while the other included sex workers and musicians. The second march also included a brief protest at the U.S. embassy, in response to U.S. interventions in Central America.^[5]

The following year, two separate marches were again held, with participants verbally and physically confronting individuals in the other march.^[5]

In 2000, activists from the Party of the Democratic Revolution and the Social Democratic Party joined the march, handing out condoms with packaging that read "Do it differently, vote differently: for Social Democracy" to bystanders.^[6]

In 2018, football fans, despite prior instances of homophobia, peacefully joined the pride parade while celebrating Mexico's progress in the World Cup.^[7]

In 2020 and 2021, the event was not held due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[8] A digital event was held in its stead.^[9]

In the 2020s, some Pride participants have called for the exclusion of businesses and corporations from the event.^[3]

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