The original story was published in 2023. Updated June 28

Internationally, the LGBTQIA community usually celebrates pride in the month of June, culminating in pride marches around June 28. The date commemorates the 1969 Stonewall uprising in New York, a series of clashes between queer civilians and police following a raid on the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village. 

In Argentina, however, things are different, for a very specific reason: weather.

“Our first pride march happened on July 2 [1992] in keeping with Stonewall, but remember that it’s the middle of winter here and it’s very cold,” said Juan Pablo Morino, sports secretary of the Argentine LGBT Federation, a nonprofit that brings together queer organizations from across the country. 

“At a time when HIV was battering us, exposing the LGBT community to the streets wasn’t logical. So we immediately started looking for an alternative date in warmer months and found that the first Argentine LGBT organization, Nuestro Mundo, was created prior to Stonewall in November 1967, so it was moved.”

Nuestro Mundo was a small advocacy group for gay rights formed by leftists in Buenos Aires and was perhaps the first of its kind in Latin America. It later joined ranks with similar organizations to form the Homosexual Liberation Front, which dissolved in 1976 when the country’s last military dictatorship came to power.  

Argentina’s 1992 pride march was the first in South America, meaning that 2026 will be the 34th time ti takes place — Morino highlighted that........

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