The covid-19 pandemic led the LGBT + collective to cancel Pride marches and parties, but not to park their demands for equality, which this year has defended on the internet and in some other small demonstration.
The Internet was the biggest stage of the Global Pride 2020, this weekend, with a concert from home with artists like Elton John; the Can’t Cancel Pride (in which Ricky Martin and Katy Perry performed, among others), or the Pride Within, which offers talks and other activities until July 5.
One of the most symbolic virtual events was broadcast from the door of the iconic Stonewall bar, where on June 28, 1969 there were violent clashes between the gay clientele and the police that gave way to the movement for gay rights.
This Sunday marked the 50th anniversary of the first demonstration of this movement, but the pandemic prevented the massive celebration in New York, and the anti-racist protests gave the event a more serious character. The event was held under the motto ‘Every lost trans black life counts’.
Hundreds of people came out to participate in an alternative march “for queer and trans black lives.” The organizers demand the character of protest that the Pride Parade had in its beginnings, in front of the sponsored party that it has become.
In London the main parade was suspended, but a group of people gathered in a demonstration that linked the demands of the gay community with that of the recent protests against racism. Another march, with measures to prevent contagion, was attended by a handful of veterans of the Gay Liberation Front in the United Kingdom.
In Barcelona, a historic demonstration was recalled 44 years ago, the first in Spain to claim the rights of homosexuals, after the death of dictator Francisco Franco.
The other acts of pride in Spain are limited to the internet and the central theme of the forums and debates are lesbian, trans and bisexual women in LGBT + activism.
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