This blog is appearing to be a tad myopic in its focus.
In large part, due to the fact I am doing an assignment on homophobia in Mexico.
As a result, my brain is focusing. Here is a little more.
I think there are six main manifestations of homophobia within a country. I have listed them here, they will not follow any order of importance.
1) Violence towards gays, lesbians and transgender people (LGBTI) - ‘hate crimes’ and police harassment as well as police inaction on hate-crimes.
2) Laws - anti-homosexual mentions within legal codes, lack of legal equality - marriage/ civil unions/ no anti-discrimination laws, lack of affirmative action
3) Lack of safe-sex education that includes same-sex loving and relationships. Lack of readily available contraception. Prevalence of of HIV/ STI’s within the LGBTI community that is not enacted upon by the government. Lack of free health care
4) Sacking of lesbians, gays, transgender people from work. Workplace discrimination
5) No separation of church and state, church’s interference in politics
6) Government leaders in powerful public positions making homophobic statements
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Mexican Lesbian Rally Document
Central Document – Pronouncements and Demands of the 4th Lesbian March,
Organising Committee (COMLa) of the 4th Lesbian March, Mexico 2009,
21st March, 3pm within the Zocalo.
Us, lesbian feminists members of the COMAL, we meet one more time, to take to the streets about the space visible for them to meet us, understand us, and reclaim publicly the rights that historically, have been denied to us.
The patriarchal and capitalist system continues with voraciousness the war and deprivation of life in both. By means of its ideological apparatus of the state, segregate and divide the population imposing their neo-liberal ideas conservative and fascist, obligating them to live submitted and repressed and exploited, under economic systems that only generate ecological devastation, about the population, extreme poverty and misery void of possibilities of a full life full of dignity, continuing the untenable capitalist system.
The lesbians have disobeyed the mandatory heterosexual obligation according to the capitalist patriarchal system that has served to make us invisible and isolate us until we ignore our sexual autonomy. For it, our organised presence in the streets is an act of visibility more strong in front of the patriarchal ideology, already that we demolish the prejudices, the sexism, the misogyny and the lesbian-fobia manifested publicly in the love between women.
The Lesbian march maintains the spirit that was within its origins our social movement, particularly from feminists and lesbian feminists, and our just reclaiming for the liberty maternal and voluntary against the violence towards women, for the free self-determination, sexual liberty – demands that in no manner have been resolved, repression against us that has not diminished, on the contrary, it has intensified, already that the discussion of that has of the pseudo-inclusion and equality creates a fictious reality that confuses and repeats the segregation, for to maintain one more time the practice of double discrimination, redressed for now with a guise of gender equality forcing us to be where all is false and a lie, it is an imposition and continues to be intensified already that the discussion of the pseudo-inclusion of the feminine body to continue to fortify that woman are equal to men.
We are continuing to feed the movement for women and we push the lesbian-feminist to be our guide political for our movement, reclaiming that the personal is political and the road to return to is feminism for the women and the women for feminism.
We question and criticize the commercialization of the what is to be “gay” already that with their voracious consumerist practice, alienate and confuses the lesbian community presented with the option of development of our new sexuality with shame, a continuation of the sexual roles and stereotypes of gender, consumption of alcohol and commercial drugs, sexual commercialization, between these and other factors, that have generated the demobilization, the lack of consciousness, the propagation of individualism and consumerism that has translated into juicy profits for the repressed groups oligarchs that, in , collusion with the false leaders have translated betrayed the first principals that we gave to the marches and the our movement of lesbians and the sexual rights movement in Mexico.
This movement of Lesbian Feminists, does not intend to accommodate, adapt nor integrate to the patriarchal, capitalist system, out proposal is another – it is behind feminism of its coherence, of its ethic, of the revolution liberation of the women that we intend a profound world-wide transformation without wars or violence.
We are fighting because the lesbians, the women and the people of México, we will be able to live without fear, exercising with dignity our rights to take to the streets and demand from the Mexican state guarantees the absolute respect and unquestionably, the freedom of elections, our civil rights and individual freedoms.
In Each Kiss, A Revolution
Pronouncements
The PAN led government is the primary enemy of the Mexican people, of them we only received fraud, robbery, intolerance, insecurity, restrictions on human rights and poverty. It is clear that the people, we are not able to win the claim: resign
They do not respect human rights in Mexico evidenced by the repression against activists and the social movements we demand respect our lives and peaceful rallies. No more criminalization of the social movements!
Enoe Uranga (present candidate to deputy) does NOT represent us, she does not have our votes.
Demands
The life of the lesbians is not able to be defined by the state like a public policy. The state, only should guarantee the human rights, respecting our public and private life.
The Political Constitution of Mexico, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the Convention about the Elimination of All the forms of Discrimination Against Women should be applied and respected by local and federal governments without restrictions or conditions. We demand the decriminalization of abortion in all the territories Mexican as well as free access to anti-contraceptive methods!
To guarantee the health of women we demand the creation of a National Advice of the Fight against and Prevention of Breast Cancer and Uterus Cancer, with branches in the 31 states.
The Society of Convenience is not any breakthrough, it is a record of the people in this country who are treated in a discriminatory manner, for this we demand complete rights on par with heterosexual people, the right to marry, access to the pension and social security of the same sex couples, to acquire Mexican nationality in the case of bi-national couples, adoption and freedom to have children and educate our children.
We demand the respect to the secular education, that begins in the first years of primary school with openness and unbiased information in the books about abortion, methods of anti-contraceptives no discrimination about sex, lesbian sexuality and homosexual sexuality so that people live in freedom and can take responsibility for their sexuality.
To the D.F Government
We demand the urgent application, based on the Law of Access to Women to a Life Free of Violence, from the Affirmative Action in favor of the female and lesbian population, that until now, has not been realized and that remains as a dead letter.
The access to all systems of health, assisted reproduction for women and lesbians that whom that they ask for.
The modification of the specific Manual procedures in prisons, in terms of guaranteeing lesbian women in prison access to intimate visits with her partner, in the same way that heterosexual couples exercise this right. We demand the prompt implementation of sensitivity in al the instances of government and to the personal of the social services of health that contain clear information respecting lesbians and their particular health needs.
Recognition of the specificity of the lesbian sector already that attend to the gay men and transgender, it is not attending to lesbian women.
Real sanctions administrative against the family judges who, making use of their discretional faculties, they take lesbian sexual orientation as reason to take guardianship and custodianship of our children, based on prejudicial sexist discrimination, violating the Constitution, the international treatment and local and federal laws that prohibit discrimination.
We demand spaces in public transport that are exclusively to guard the security of the women to be guarded and limited strictly only to women, already that there is no control about this and the Mexican city-dwellers that thy have faced harassment in the everyday from all types of men including the old men and disabled men, already that these people have not learnt still that women are not objects.
We demand the immediate application of the Diagnostic for the Human Rights for the D.F realized in April 2008, and that they apply the recommendations of the Commission of Human Rights within DF in favor of lesbians.
Organising Committee (COMLa) of the 4th Lesbian March, Mexico 2009,
21st March, 3pm within the Zocalo.
Us, lesbian feminists members of the COMAL, we meet one more time, to take to the streets about the space visible for them to meet us, understand us, and reclaim publicly the rights that historically, have been denied to us.
The patriarchal and capitalist system continues with voraciousness the war and deprivation of life in both. By means of its ideological apparatus of the state, segregate and divide the population imposing their neo-liberal ideas conservative and fascist, obligating them to live submitted and repressed and exploited, under economic systems that only generate ecological devastation, about the population, extreme poverty and misery void of possibilities of a full life full of dignity, continuing the untenable capitalist system.
The lesbians have disobeyed the mandatory heterosexual obligation according to the capitalist patriarchal system that has served to make us invisible and isolate us until we ignore our sexual autonomy. For it, our organised presence in the streets is an act of visibility more strong in front of the patriarchal ideology, already that we demolish the prejudices, the sexism, the misogyny and the lesbian-fobia manifested publicly in the love between women.
The Lesbian march maintains the spirit that was within its origins our social movement, particularly from feminists and lesbian feminists, and our just reclaiming for the liberty maternal and voluntary against the violence towards women, for the free self-determination, sexual liberty – demands that in no manner have been resolved, repression against us that has not diminished, on the contrary, it has intensified, already that the discussion of that has of the pseudo-inclusion and equality creates a fictious reality that confuses and repeats the segregation, for to maintain one more time the practice of double discrimination, redressed for now with a guise of gender equality forcing us to be where all is false and a lie, it is an imposition and continues to be intensified already that the discussion of the pseudo-inclusion of the feminine body to continue to fortify that woman are equal to men.
We are continuing to feed the movement for women and we push the lesbian-feminist to be our guide political for our movement, reclaiming that the personal is political and the road to return to is feminism for the women and the women for feminism.
We question and criticize the commercialization of the what is to be “gay” already that with their voracious consumerist practice, alienate and confuses the lesbian community presented with the option of development of our new sexuality with shame, a continuation of the sexual roles and stereotypes of gender, consumption of alcohol and commercial drugs, sexual commercialization, between these and other factors, that have generated the demobilization, the lack of consciousness, the propagation of individualism and consumerism that has translated into juicy profits for the repressed groups oligarchs that, in , collusion with the false leaders have translated betrayed the first principals that we gave to the marches and the our movement of lesbians and the sexual rights movement in Mexico.
This movement of Lesbian Feminists, does not intend to accommodate, adapt nor integrate to the patriarchal, capitalist system, out proposal is another – it is behind feminism of its coherence, of its ethic, of the revolution liberation of the women that we intend a profound world-wide transformation without wars or violence.
We are fighting because the lesbians, the women and the people of México, we will be able to live without fear, exercising with dignity our rights to take to the streets and demand from the Mexican state guarantees the absolute respect and unquestionably, the freedom of elections, our civil rights and individual freedoms.
In Each Kiss, A Revolution
Pronouncements
The PAN led government is the primary enemy of the Mexican people, of them we only received fraud, robbery, intolerance, insecurity, restrictions on human rights and poverty. It is clear that the people, we are not able to win the claim: resign
They do not respect human rights in Mexico evidenced by the repression against activists and the social movements we demand respect our lives and peaceful rallies. No more criminalization of the social movements!
Enoe Uranga (present candidate to deputy) does NOT represent us, she does not have our votes.
Demands
The life of the lesbians is not able to be defined by the state like a public policy. The state, only should guarantee the human rights, respecting our public and private life.
The Political Constitution of Mexico, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the Convention about the Elimination of All the forms of Discrimination Against Women should be applied and respected by local and federal governments without restrictions or conditions. We demand the decriminalization of abortion in all the territories Mexican as well as free access to anti-contraceptive methods!
To guarantee the health of women we demand the creation of a National Advice of the Fight against and Prevention of Breast Cancer and Uterus Cancer, with branches in the 31 states.
The Society of Convenience is not any breakthrough, it is a record of the people in this country who are treated in a discriminatory manner, for this we demand complete rights on par with heterosexual people, the right to marry, access to the pension and social security of the same sex couples, to acquire Mexican nationality in the case of bi-national couples, adoption and freedom to have children and educate our children.
We demand the respect to the secular education, that begins in the first years of primary school with openness and unbiased information in the books about abortion, methods of anti-contraceptives no discrimination about sex, lesbian sexuality and homosexual sexuality so that people live in freedom and can take responsibility for their sexuality.
To the D.F Government
We demand the urgent application, based on the Law of Access to Women to a Life Free of Violence, from the Affirmative Action in favor of the female and lesbian population, that until now, has not been realized and that remains as a dead letter.
The access to all systems of health, assisted reproduction for women and lesbians that whom that they ask for.
The modification of the specific Manual procedures in prisons, in terms of guaranteeing lesbian women in prison access to intimate visits with her partner, in the same way that heterosexual couples exercise this right. We demand the prompt implementation of sensitivity in al the instances of government and to the personal of the social services of health that contain clear information respecting lesbians and their particular health needs.
Recognition of the specificity of the lesbian sector already that attend to the gay men and transgender, it is not attending to lesbian women.
Real sanctions administrative against the family judges who, making use of their discretional faculties, they take lesbian sexual orientation as reason to take guardianship and custodianship of our children, based on prejudicial sexist discrimination, violating the Constitution, the international treatment and local and federal laws that prohibit discrimination.
We demand spaces in public transport that are exclusively to guard the security of the women to be guarded and limited strictly only to women, already that there is no control about this and the Mexican city-dwellers that thy have faced harassment in the everyday from all types of men including the old men and disabled men, already that these people have not learnt still that women are not objects.
We demand the immediate application of the Diagnostic for the Human Rights for the D.F realized in April 2008, and that they apply the recommendations of the Commission of Human Rights within DF in favor of lesbians.
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