09-17-2019, 01:18 PM
LGBTQ* Activists Protest Outside Krasnocorian Embassy In Punta Santiago
PUNTA SANTIAGO, ALDURIA -- Queer activists and members of Alduria's LGBTQ* community have staged a protest outside the Krasnocorian embassy, calling for Alduria to break relations with the Apollonian kingdom over their human rights record on LGBTQ issues.
Around 400 protesters descended on the gated embassy in Punta Satiago's Embassy Row neighborhood. They brought pink flowers, wreaths, and pink cardboard triangles. Others waved placards reading "queer solidarity", "close the reeducation camps - asylum seekers welcome" and "high camp not concentration camps", as the crowd chanted "no human is illegal". Some demonstrators wore masks of the Krasnocorian Prime Minister Obrad Bošković's face.
Martin Ramirez is a member of queer direct action group Respect Our Humanity, which supported the protest. He told Newsflash: "I'm here to show solidarity with our global LGBT community. Clicktivism and sharing news articles aren't enough of a response to these atrocities and reeducation camps. We will always face homophobia and it's time we acted as a global community to ensure our voices are not silent. To think it could be anyone of us in [those camps] breaks my heart. Our geographical privilege shouldn't blind us to the sexual freedoms we enjoy – or our unity with those who do not."
Mr. Ramirez and other activists attempted to place signs and pink triangles in the gates of the embassy itself, but these were quickly torn down by police officers, to boos from the crowd.
A smaller group of protesters returned after dark to scale the gates, and fling armfuls of flowers across the doorstep and lawn.
Another protester, Frances Gaugin, said: "We want our voices to be heard by the Aldurian Parliament as well as by the leadership of Krasnocoria. We're here. We're queer. And we're not going anywhere. Our queer solidarity smashes borders."