The Washington Blade recently published an opinion piece by 2019 Advocate Mariano Ruiz of Argentina about the upcoming WorldPride DC 2025. Mariano writes: "If we set the precedent that global LGBTQI+ events cannot happen under right-wing or anti-LGBTQI+ governments, we will effectively disqualify a growing list of countries from hosting. That includes not only the U.S. under Trump, but Hungary, Italy, Uganda, Poland — and even my own country, Argentina, under Javier Milei. Yet ILGA World still plans to convene its 2027 conference in Buenos Aires, and rightly so. We must not surrender global platforms to the very governments that wish to erase us." Mariano is the founder and director of
Derechos Humanos y Diversidad Asociación Civil.
