Mark who they are, but also warn that they do not want to lose. With this double conviction, the state demonstration took to the streets of Madrid for pride, which thousands of people gather in the capital, and that this time he makes memory and wants to resist the onset of the ultra, which extends all over the world. Because what has been inflicted for many years as a threat to LGTBI rights is no longer just a warning: it is here that legislative achievements are dismantled with a coordinated attack in a complete climb.
Under the slogan “20 years, moving in rights: not a step back”, the march left after 7:00 p.m. in the athe, with eyes to the pride of Budapest, which only a week ago filled the streets of the Hungarian capital before the prohibition of the ultra Viktor Orban. The veto is part of the ideological current that the ILGA European organization describes as a “new era” for the rights of LGTBI, used in many parts of the world as a “scapegoat” to promote legislative modifications that ultimately destroy democracy.
Examples are reproduced in several countries of the world, from Hungary to the United States, as well as in communities and municipalities in which VOX and Popular Party Guverd, which refused to place rainbow flags in this month and captain of the LGTBI laws in Madrid or in the Valencian community. But the demonstration also seeks to recall the gained achievements, including the same sexual marriage, whose approval with the stubborn opposition of the PP and the Church was carried out during this year during June 20.
Pride began to walk in a few minutes from 7 pm under the cloudy sky, but strong heat. He did this on the rhythm of the song “Who cares”, from Alaska and Dinarama, and under the unanimous cry “Not one step back”. Together with the presidents of Cogam and Felgtb, Ronnie de La Kruz and Paula Iglesias, as well as the vice president of the government and the Minister of Labor, Iolanda Diaz, in the main march, Minister of Health, Monica Garcy, a deputy of the equations, the name of the equations, the Council in the case, you can’t, in the composition, name, name of the Council, the name of the Council, the Name Council, the name, name, name Council of equations, councils of equations, Jul, Jul, as part of the Council, the Council of equations. Madrid. Among them are the socialists Reyes Maroto or Santi Rivero, Eduardo Rubinho and Jimun Gonzalez (more Madrid) and Senator Karl Antonelli. They are also accompanied by the former United, which left Marisa Castro, who defended an equal marriage in the early 2000s.
An hour before the beginning of March, numerous people, groups and groups of friends gathered around atoch. The rainbow tide moves along Paseo -Tod -Prado, whose margins are full of people who dance and watch the march to pass. Inside Van Isabelle and ANA, two 55 and 49 -year -old friends who came to pride, although they are not LGTBI, because human rights should be declared the same way. ” “Today we have more important, and we have more reasons than when,” Isabelle describes, who talks about the experience that they lived on the demonstration, and this makes them “convincing us even more that we should be here.” “While we came, the man began to scream if he did not shame us that we teach 4 -year -olds in schools to masturbate,” explains Isabelle, dressed in a fan, a bracelet and a rainbow dress.
It is the instrumentalization of childhood to cut off LGTBI rights that is one of the elements common to the ultra -right around the world. The alleged protection of childhood, in fact, is a pretext that Orban uses in Hungary to approve his homophobic laws. “Seeing what is happening in other countries,” says 30 -year -old Rakel, who came with his friend Tania. “This year we could not fold the heat. Many people began to experience concerns that I did not feel before, we supported in many respects, ”the latter summarizes. The couple, who marries next year, also believes that “fundamentally” remember the 20th anniversary of equal marriages. “I think that in our generation we grew up, giving it for granted, but we must appreciate it,” they say.
It follows the LGTBI families grouped by GaleHi. Tanya, 37 years old, pushes a children’s cart. He has two children 8 months and 7 years old with his wife, which manifest with them. The child is clear why they are here: “So the families of two mothers and two parents continue to exist,” he says between shameful and decisive. “What is happening is bothering us, especially thinking about their future, about how they will grow and want to be what they want to be,” says Tanya, who explains that since the children were born, they have gone from seeing pride as a spectator to the manifesto.
Before the start, the organizers of the demonstration mentioned the “reactionary wave of hatred, which is growing year after year,” and that “wants us to be hidden in the closet,” said Ronnie de La Kruz, who remembered the mass march of Budapashta weeks ago: “Having faced hatred for the entire civilian population, she filled the streets of diversity and Orban. “They want to make us believe that we are a threat to the minority, but we are the majority that believes in diversity and respect, and we will demonstrate that today in Madrid,” added Paula Iglesias.
De la Cruz used the fact that the PP celebrates his Congress this weekend to claim that you apologize for the “sad” appeal against an equal marriage to the constitutional court: “The time has come: they ask for forgiveness,” he exclaimed. The message was supported by Iolanda Diaz. “The PP will have a great opportunity to fix it today,” he said.
Diaz insisted on a message warning a reactionary offensive. “Extraordinary right comes to the fields, but points to the center, wants to colonize the essence of democracy. I urge to protect human rights around the world, because they follow everyone, but they will not receive this, ”he said.
“Rural diversity, universal pride”, they chant Blory Castellanomoncheg behind the banner of the association. Groups come from different provinces and peoples of Spain, which have already celebrated their pride in previous weeks. Trans -Flagi, rainbow, non -biological or bisexuals fill the street with color, while several Batukads encourage the trip. From the barrier, a man throws those who go to a march with a water gun, and several people with carts are trying to sell beer. “I Intersex I”, a group that also comes from Castilla-la Mancha.
