In an interview with CNN Radio on CNN no Plural+, the president of the Organization of the LGBTI+ Pride Parade, Claudia Regina Garcia, told about her experience since the 80s in activism.
On July 25th, the International Day of Black, Latin and Caribbean Women is celebrated, recognized by the UN since 1992.
“I say it’s double prejudice, in addition to machismo, black women are seen as second-rate, and lesbians as third-rate, the first prejudice that attacked me was racial, when I came out as a lesbian it was the ‘person of second class,’” he said.
At the same time, Claudia believes it is important to “gain space together and make progress together”, both against machismo and against racism and homophobia.
“It’s not a fight against another”, he defended.
The activist says that she was always concerned to avoid putting her in a box of “victimism”.
“I never left, I always joined all the movements, I didn’t focus only on the black, lesbian, or woman issue, but I knew how to identify when there was treatment of a poor thing, or victim, subtle, but it happened, today it doesn’t happen, from the 90’s it advanced The fight against racism is still lacking, as well as against machismo.”
Claudia Regina says that the process against prejudice “will take a long time to win”: “It is important to see that television shows more of what it is like, it is not a country of blondes with blue eyes, already mestizos, blacks, mulattos, it has to be on screen, it breaks paradigms.”
She also defended that this is an advance that will take time: “I think that racism, as well as machismo and homophobia, are things with such great depth, there is resistance in accepting, even the need to affirm prejudice as ‘freedom of expression’, not we ask for more rights, this is important to say”.
Source: CNN Brasil
