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In 1992, a year after the democratically elected president Patricio Alwyn officially
received the Rettig Report on the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship’s human rights abuses, a
commemorative human rights march paraded through Santiago. After the Agrupación de
Familiares de Detenidos Desaparecidos (AFDD, the Association of Families of the
Detained-Disappeared), Comisión Chilena de Derechos Humanos (CCHDDHH, Chilean
Commission of Human Rights), and other prominent human rights organizations passed, a dozen
or so masked gay men appeared at the end of the parade and held up the banner “For our fallen
siblings, MOVILH Homosexual Movement of Liberation (Por nuestros hermanos caídos,
MOVILH Movimiento de Liberación Homosexual).” The groundbreaking appearance was the
first time a queer organization in Chile publicly linked itself to an ongoing and politicized human
rights struggle.

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