Madrid marches online (and in the streets) for LGTBI rights

He Gay Pride 2020 does not go out and the claims in defense of the rights of the LGTBI community they move to the balconies and the internet. Although the country 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 Spain during the ‘new normal’ make it more necessary than ever to reinforce the current safety and hygiene measures 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 mostly adapted their acts for 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 society egalitarian.

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 the International 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.

In parallel, the Critical Pride platform organizes an alternative demonstration to the one called by MADO in the capital on June 28 under the premise “Pride is protest, dissent is resistance” that will go to the streets, with a route from Atocha to Sol starting at 7:30 p.m., and with the request to the protesters to wear a mask to protect themselves from the coronavirus and respect the two meters of security to comply with social distancing. As they already proclaimed in 2019, the Critical Pride demonstration this year aims to remember that there are still conquests to achieve and claim diversity and dissent against “pink capitalism and the commodification of Pride”, according to what they express via Twitter.