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Celebrates Anniversary of "Day for Tolerance and Respect for Diversity"

Michoacan Celebrates Anniversary of "Day for Tolerance and Respect for Diversity"

demand the creation of the State Council for the Prevention of Discrimination and Violence
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Photo: Sexual Diversity Group Facto

Michoacán Mexico City, May 16, 2011.

deaf groups, migrants, older people, sex workers and drivers joined members of sexual dissidence in Michoacan to commemorate the International Day Against Homophobia and the first anniversary of the decree of the Day for Tolerance and Respect for Diversity.

With the slogan "transphobia, homophobia and lesbophobia hurt the dignity and human rights" gay, lesbian and transgender community marched along Avenida Madero Michoacan capital to the Plaza Juarez for the V Walk Against Discrimination, which joined other members of vulnerable groups to demand freedom, pluralism, non-discrimination for sexual diversity and equal opportunities.

The march, according to the organizing committee, attended by 700 people for "civil society to express the importance of recognizing the different the same rights."

During the event, public officials and the deputy of the Democratic Revolution Party, Gabriela Aguilar Molina, expressed support for the mobilization and urged the state governor Leonel Godoy to install the State Council for the Prevention of Discrimination and Violence.

also attended the walk, the state health secretary, Armando Luna, and representatives of the State Commission for Human Rights.

Finally, the civic-cultural act on behalf of civil society, Gerardo Andrés Herrera, president of Facto Sexual Diversity Group, required all government agencies "do their job and strive to ensure equality and non discrimination for reasons of sexual preference. "