ARGENTINA: Ten years on from the Equal Marriage Law
Around the world civil society keeps pushing for equal marriage. Ten years after the Equal Marriage Law, a milestone for Latin America, was passed in Argentina, LGBTQI+ leader María Rachid, who co-founded the Argentine LGBT Federation, set out the strategies they used and the tactics that worked best to advance the equality agenda. The keys to their success are still relevant to movements fighting the same struggle today.
After the law was passed, all the ministries, many municipalities and many provincial governments set up areas of sexual diversity. As a result, there came to be a lot of state agencies at various levels that were making public policy on diversity, which had an impact on many spheres, including schools. This resulted in an important cultural change, since it modified the perception of our families. Of course, there are pockets of resistance and acts of discrimination occur, but now these acts of discrimination are pointed out and repudiated by society.
María Rachid
