Thousands of people in the capitals of Argentina and Chile joined worldwide gay pride parades to promote equal rights and calling for an end to discrimination.<br /><br />In Buenos Aires the 23rd such march united more than 30 organisations under the banner of sexual diversity.<br /><br />Argentina was the first Latin American country to allow same-sex civil unions in 2002, and then same-sex marriages in 2010.<br /><br />Gay marriage is also legal in Uruguay and Brazil – but not in Chile, where organisers dedicated the parade in Santiago to same-sex families.<br /><br />The Movement for Homosexual Freedom (MOVILH) welcomed “some progress” on equal rights but denounced what it called the “hateful onslaught” by conservative sectors of society against the rights of same-sex families.
