Trans grandmothers of the LGBTTTIQ+ movement
In the 70’s gender identity was not on any agenda in Mexico, for Trans Women reaching the age of 50 was a matter of survival. They lived what the headlines of Alarma! Magazine called “Little Women”, a publication that exhibited and humiliated those who identified with the feminine. Living a media lynching through the red note resulted in the murder, disappearance and suicide of many of them.
From those years we remember the Mexico of the cabaret queens, of the stars of musical theater and cinema, they were close to this Mexico, however, because of their gender identity they were denied and violated, they were constantly persecuted by the Department of Police Investigation and Transit (DIPT).
They are considered the grandmothers of the LGBTTTIQ+ movement, they see themselves as historical, through different organizations in favor of the rights of the trans elderly, they seek reparation for the physical, emotional, psychological and economic damage they faced at the hands of the PRI governments.
Currently they do not appear in the PRIDE marches despite being the pioneers who in 1979 led the first march for the rights of the lesbian and gay community.