Demonstrators condemned anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric, demanded protection against violence targeting trans people and defended rights won through legislation.
Thousands of people marched through Buenos Aires on Saturday for Argentina’s 35th Pride March, denouncing President Javier Milei’s policies and anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric while demanding an end to violence against transgender people.
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Under the slogan “Pride to Power! To Hell with Hate!”, demonstrators gathered near Belgrano and Lima avenues before marching toward the National Congress. The mobilization came amid heightened tensions over attacks against trans women and a day before Pope Leo XIV’s arrival in Argentina.
Marchers along Lima Street and Avenida de Mayo chanted against Milei and members of his La Libertad Avanza party, including “Milei, you trash, you’re the dictatorship.” Posters opposing anti-trans violence carried messages such as “Being trans must not cost you your life,” referring to an attack last Sunday near Lake Palermo.
Text Reads: ENOUGH HATE AGAINST THE LGBTIQ+ COMMUNITY
We express our strongest condemnation of the acts of violence committed against our community.
Hate speech is no longer limited to insults and aggression from state officials at various levels, or homophobic remarks made by individuals on social media.
Today, hate speech is being enacted directly by the State—through police orders to repress with extreme violence, exclusionary administrative regulations, a summary and exclusionary judicial system, and punitive national laws that run counter to international treaties.
It is impossible to halt the rising physical violence against our community when the State itself is the one promoting that violence.
The National State is responsible for upholding anti-discrimination laws in all spheres and for implementing public policies to combat hate.
Mr. President: you bear the greatest responsibility for the escalation of violence in Argentina. Uphold the law; fulfill your role.
Pride to the forefront—to hell with hate!
A group of young people allegedly harassed trans women verbally and assaulted them with sticks, stones and branches during the incident.
Before the march, organizing groups accused the national government of seeking to erase and exclude LGBTQ+ people. They called for the prevention of violence based on prejudice and inclusion to return to the center of the government’s agenda.
“We can no longer tolerate hate as state policy. Our pride is antifascist and antiracist, and our celebration is also a struggle, as we have been doing at CHA for 42 years,” said María Laura Olivier, secretary of the Argentine Homosexual Community (CHA).
The march was organized by the Pride March Organizing Committee – Historical Line (OLH), with support from the Pride and Struggle Front, which includes CHA, the Argentine Gay and Lesbian Integration Society (SIGLA) and 100 Percent Diversity and Rights. Dozens of LGBTQ+ and nonbinary groups from across the country also joined the demonstration.
Human rights organizations, including the Mothers and Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, H.I.J.O.S. Capital and NIETES, participated alongside unions affiliated with Argentina’s two CTA labor federations and gender and human rights secretariats within the General Confederation of Labor (CGT).
The mobilization also included a gathering outside the residence of former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner at San José 1111, where she is serving house arrest. The group Argentina with Cristina called on supporters to meet there to thank her for policies promoting inclusion and expanded rights, demand her freedom and defend her innocence.
Fernández appeared on her balcony to greet the gathered supporters. They later marched along 9 de Julio Avenue toward Avenida de Mayo, joining the main Pride procession to the stage outside Congress.
ORGULLOSXS DE CRISTINA 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
En el marco de la Marcha del Orgullo, compañerxs se movilizan desde San José 1111 para agradecerle a Cristina por los derechos conquistados durante sus gobiernos, exigir su libertad y defender su inocencia.#CristinaLibre pic.twitter.com/A02uyfZ2k8
— Argentina con Cristina 🇦🇷 (@argconcristina) November 7, 2026
Tex Reads: PROUD OF CRISTINA
As part of the Pride March, comrades are mobilizing from 1111 San José to thank Cristina for the rights won during her administrations, demand her release, and defend her innocence.
Organizers highlighted legislation adopted during the administrations of Fernández and her late husband, former President Néstor Kirchner, as milestones in expanding LGBTQ+ rights. The measures included the Equal Marriage Law, passed in 2010, and the Gender Identity Law, enacted in 2012, during Fernández’s presidency. They also recalled the Comprehensive Sexual Education Law, approved by Congress in 2006 under Néstor Kirchner.
The program included performances by Six Sex, Martín Cirio, K4OS, DJ Fabián Jara and Blujaus, with singer María Becerra scheduled to close the festivities. Organizers also planned to read a statement at the stage outside Congress.
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