Mexico City’s 31st annual gay pride march

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The 31st annual gay pride march took place in Mexico City on Saturday afternoon, starting at the Angel of Independence on Paseo de la Reforma and ending in the Zocalo, or grand central plaza.

Around 350,000 people attended, according to La Jornada newspaper, many urging tolerance and an end to discrimination against homosexuals, lesbians, transvestites, bisexuals and transsexuals.

You can see images from the march above, in a video made by the Reforma newspaper.

Click here for a recent article by McClatchy newspapers on being gay in Mexico City.

-- Deborah Bonello in Mexico City