Two women kissing, that bomb

A few days ago, a controversy surrounding a children's film in which there is a homoparental family made up of two women and a child exploded on social networks and in the press.

In one scene those two women kiss.

, released this year, is banned in 14 countries and has been restricted to adults in as many.

Why in 2022 is it a scandal on social networks and in the press that two women kiss in a children's movie?

These days we prove that time, unfortunately in terms of human rights, does not necessarily run in a straight line.

What seems like a problem from another decade or another century is suddenly a current problem.

Today, which is the day of the 44th LGBTTTIQ+ pride parade, dedicated to denouncing the multiple forms of violence against women of sexual diversity, lesbophobia, transphobia and homophobia are revealed in controversies that begin with something as small as this.

It seems that the controversies explode for something common and current that happens every day in the privacy of the houses, and when they go public they are a scandal.

Like this tweet, about the Disney movie: "I had seen mermaids, beasts, crabs and talking cups, but never my family."

A kiss between two women is a scandal, that's how it reaches the press and social networks, but why?

Let's go back in time, now that the clocks seem to go, fast, in the opposite direction.

In Mexico, on November 20, 1901, there was a private dance for men, half of them dressed "as women" in long dresses, and the other half "as men" in three-piece suits.

That night the police broke into that private party where 42 men were dancing and having fun.

The husband of the daughter of then president Porfirio Díaz –Ignacio de la Torre– was at the party, but to avoid scandal, by order of the president, the press began to correct the figure and it was published that there were 41 men at that dance, thus erasing the president's son-in-law.

The note was a scandal and it was also the first time that a homosexual topic broke out on the front pages.

The newspaper

thus described the scandalous scene: “They tried to flee to take off the clothes of the opposite sex to theirs;

but when the police realized that it was something serious, they did not let any of the 41 out. We will not give our readers more details as they are extremely disgusting.”

The day after the raid, part of the punishment before being taken to jail was that the men had to sweep the streets in transvestites.

This case marked something that is clear from a distance, especially today: it was the first time that there were men "dressed as women" on the streets of Mexico City, at that time as humiliation and punishment, but it was the seed of what today it is done with pride, party and celebration in the same streets.

However, its shadow still persists, why the hell a century later is it still a scandal in the press, now also on social networks, what happens in private when it comes out in public, like a kiss of love between two women?

It scandalizes the same today as it did a century ago, however this construction takes flight in the media and on social networks.

Which, fortunately and also unfortunately, means that we have some control from the word.

And I say misfortune because even today there are those who repudiate or reject scenes from private life that do not have to be different in public life, but that it is a scandal is what violates the rights of the LGBTTTIQ+ community.

This is where the problem opens up the most.

The obvious is to say that if the kiss were between a heterosexual couple, as it happens in most Disney movies,

It would not have been censored in several countries nor would the press and networks have been set on fire, the same thing would have happened if the so-called dance of the 41 had been between heterosexual couples.

The scandal comes from lesbophobia, homophobia, transphobia and the context in which it occurs.

In Mexico, for example, even in 2022 there are eight states that have not approved equal marriage, Mexico City was the first to approve it in 2010, but they are missing: Durango, Zacatecas, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Tabasco, Veracruz, Tamaulipas and the Mexico state.

Basic rights are missing, such as public health issues for the trans community.

There is a specialized clinic in Mexico City, but how are these needs met in other states without violating their rights?

In prisons throughout the country, where is the trans community placed in such a way that their rights are not violated when they are deprived of liberty?

How is the journey in the adoption procedures for homoparental families?

We are sure,

Are you sure that your rights are not violated in the process?

Femicide is criminalized, but what about hate crimes against the LGBTTTIQ+ community, are there even more weak points?

It is very good that public officials join the march for the first time, just as it is very good that new and various brands participate in the march, but hopefully they will not do it for

, political propaganda or marketing purposes, hopefully they will commit to review their internal policies in favor of the LGBTTTIQ+ community, from respecting their pronouns to respecting their rights in the broadest spectrum.

For example, listening to their needs.

As simple as listening to them and from there working on whatever is needed.

The 41st dance a century ago was a scandal in the press, Disney-Pixar was a scandal in social networks.

There is still a journey to integrate the rights of the LGBTTTIQ+ community so that they are part of pop, music, characters, toys, what we see every day in mass culture.

That there be fewer princesses, more dolls from homoparental families, stuffed animals of boys who dress as girls, songs that include this diversity, movies, series, stories that reflect that private life in public.

That in public policies, that in companies any of the workers can, on a day like any other, boast of working in a space that respects human rights.

In the press, on social networks: we are all involved in this collective struggle to defuse those bombs that are nothing more than scenes of everyday life.

Until two women kissing in any movie is normal.

Let them dance and enjoy themselves in the streets, transforming that humiliation into pride.

That men "dressed as women" turn what was once humiliation into pride, into having a blast.

And that a kiss between two women is the bomb that it is, that of love.

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