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Bogota, Colombia – 29 June 2025
1. Various of people dancing, drumming and marching during Pride parade
2. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Felipe Romero, stage artist:
"I think we are still very marked, we are very branded. No matter our orientation, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, we are always marked and stigmatized due to our orientation, by our preferences, by our style, by our way of being, right? And I think it is very important that precisely these spaces allow us to make ourselves visible, to show ourselves and to mark a resistance because we deserve respect."
3. Various of people dancing, drumming and marching during Pride parade
STORYLINE:
Colombia’s capital was alive with music and dancing on Sunday as the annual Pride parade took over the streets of Bogota.
In the crowds gathered, rainbow flags and banners with messages such as "There’s nothing to cure" could be seen above the sea of colorful costumes.
"No matter our orientation, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, we are always marked and stigmatized due to our orientation, by our preferences, by our style, by our way of being," said Felipe Romero, a stage artist who participated in Sunday’s parade.
"I think it is very important that precisely these spaces allow us to make ourselves visible, to show ourselves and to mark a resistance because we deserve respect."
Some also marched with posters to raise awareness of violence against transgender people.
In the Andean country, the increase in crimes against members of the LGBTIQ+ population has generated an alert from the Attorney General’s Office, which on Saturday reported 46 murders so far in 2025 and 3,769 threats in recent years.
In April, the case of Sara Millerey, a 32-year-old trans woman who was brutally tortured and abandoned in a stream, caused a stir. This incident was used as an emblem to push for the passage of a transgender integrity law currently being processed in the legislature.
Meanwhile, a United Nations expert recently warned of the discrimination and exclusion that persist against that community in Colombia.
AP video by Samuel Sotomayor
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