Frente de Liberación Homosexual (Mexico)

The Frente de Liberación Homosexual (Spanish: Homosexual Liberation Front or FLH), was the first public gay liberation in Mexico.[1] Was led and co founded by lesbian activist Nancy Cárdenas in 1971.[2]

History

After Stonewall riots, in the early 1970s a group of people from different sexual diversities began regular meetings in Mexico City to discuss the oppressive situation they lived. Among them were actress and activist Nancy Cárdenas and writer and student activist Luis González de Alba. Carlos Monsiváis would have given Cárdenas documents from American Gay Liberation Front, motivating Cárdenas to found a formal group. She organized formal meetings that raise awareness among others about the importance of sexual diversity in the Mexican society. Some of the members of these circle had participated in social movements such as Movement of 1968.[3]

As a result of these meetings, the FLH was founded on August 15, 1971, in Mexico City. Meetings was conducted as a secret space given the repressive politic to social movements under the government of Luis Echeverría and homophobic behaviors in Mexican society. FLH activities included exercises of self-acceptance and recognition of individual and collective sexual diversity.[4] The group was dissolved in 1973.[3]

References
  1. "Breve historia de la primera marcha LGBT+ de México" [Short history of the first LGBT+ march in Mexico]. Secretaria of Culture of Mexico blog. Secretaria de Cultura. June 26, 2019. Retrieved 2021-06-19.
  2. Paul, Carlos (March 23, 2004). "Recordarán a la dramaturga y activista Nancy Cárdenas a 10 años de su muerte" [Playwright and activist Nancy Cárdenas to be remembered 10 years after her death]. www.jornada.com.mx. Retrieved 2021-06-20.
  3. Robles Ruiz, Ana Alejandra (2019). El arcoíris de la disidencia : novela gay en México [Rainbow of dissidence: gay novel in Mexico] (Primera edición ed.). Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas. ISBN 978-607-543-093-5. OCLC 1141252891.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  4. Afuera [Outside] (in Spanish). El Centro Impresor. 1972.


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