2026/07/30 by Fausto Eduardo Gómez Garcia
paper · doi:10.7440/histcrit101.2026.05
published in Historia Crítica (101) (Universidad de los Andes)
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Objective/context: In this article, I analyze the six lesbian marches held in Mexico City between 2003 and 2013. To do so, I explain how these marches enabled the lesbian movement to persist in the post-Cold War context, challenged the district government’s actions on lgbt rights, and drew criticism of feminists’ approach, as well as of the sexual diversity movement, toward formal government institutions. Methodology: This research examines newspaper and documentary sources from the historical archive of Prensa Editorial LeSVOZ, whose owners were the primary organizers of the lesbian marches. The collection includes documents from the Lesbian March Organizing Committee, pamphlets, letters, and magazine articles. These materials reconstruct the origins, evolution, and continuities of the lesbian marches in relation to feminist activism, lgbt groups, and Mexico City government institutions. Originality: I examine acts of protest that contribute to knowledge in the fields of sexual diversity and feminism. I also review a broad but little-known historical archive that enables the study of novel organizational and political processes within a periodization framework that is scarcely addressed in existing historiography. Conclusions: The six lesbian marches reshaped the protest actions of lesbian feminism during the pan’s two six-year terms (2000-2012) by opposing the rise in femicides and widespread violence in the country. They also strengthened a lesbian separatist agenda by creating a march exclusively for women and by demanding specific rights as lesbians.