Madrid and Barcelona will demonstrate online for LGTBI rights

news-def-date" datetime="2020-06-27T11:55:55+02:00">27/06/2020 11:54 – Updated: 06/27/2020 11:55

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He Gay Pride 2020 does not go out and the demands for the rights of the LGTBI community they move to the balconies and the internet. Although Spain has already overcome the most critical moments of the health emergency caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, the outbreaks that are being detected in different parts of the country in the midst of ‘new normality’ make security measures more necessary than ever and current hygiene to prevent a further advance of covid-19 throughout the national territory. Thus, Madrid and Barcelona, the cities where Pride is traditionally celebrated with the greatest attendance and repercussion, have adapted their acts in defense of diversity and the rights of the LGTBI community to make visible with the help of technology everything that remains to be achieved to achieve a more egalitarian society .

Although the center of Madrid will not collapse this year with the massive presence of thousands of attendees and floats parading, the State Federation of Lesbians, Gays, Trans and Bisexuals (FELGTB) and the LGTB + group of Madrid COGAM maintains what is the dish strong of the acts in the capital calling for this 4th of July the demonstration by the LGTBI Pride in a virtual way, as detailed by FELGTB in a press release. Despite the fact that it has not yet been detailed how it will be possible to participate in the virtual demonstration, it is known that it will begin at 19:00 in the afternoon and that it will carry the motto “Sorority and feminism to TRANSform. Lesbian, trans and bisexual women in action! For the most vulnerable! “, Thereby putting the focus on” there is no one way to be a woman “and highlighting those who are part of the LGTBI community and are, due to the epidemic of covid-19, in a situation of extreme need. In addition, from FELGTB it has also been encouraged to support from the balconies, the meeting point of the Spanish during the confinement, the event decorating them with the rainbow flag.

Before, on June 28, there will be online actions for LGBTI Pride Day and on July 1 the celebrations will officially start that they would have been developed in person in Madrid and that, after the epidemic had passed, they would also sneak into the homes of residents in the capital through the screen. To kick off the events, several well-known personalities will give a choral proclamation made up, among others, of the model and actress Lola Rodríguez, the player of the Spanish water polo team Victor Gutierrez o Eats, co-star of the series ‘Veneno’, which reviews the life of Cristina Ortiz, better known as ‘La Veneno’. Among the scheduled activities, on July 3 you can continue ‘online’, prior registration, a conference on Human Rights with representatives of politics, activism and NGOs.