Mexican museum celebrates diversity for Pride month

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STORY: This Mexican exhibition highlights the LGBTQ+ community's role in history

Location: Museum of Memory and Tolerance, Mexico City

The museum debuted the display in celebration of Pride month

[Linda Atach, Exhibitions Director]

“In this exhibition, we wanted to make a timeline showing that diversity’s history is parallel to human history, and it’s included in it. We illustrate it with inclusion, featuring characters such as Safo, a gay poet from the 3rd century B.C.”

The exhibition aims to show how diversity and human history have long been intertwined

[Laura Velez, Exhibition curator]

“Discrimination is a temporary stance in societies and cultures. In that sense, it has been changing so we can work on it. If (discrimination) had not been accepted in other times and places, we should not accept it either. This exhibition teaches us to be open to diversity and to give ourselves the opportunity to be inclusive.”