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The LGTBI community celebrates another year of its International Pride Day, an ephemeris that combines the festive atmosphere with the demand for freedom and sexual diversity.
Although this day has its date set on June 28, the Galactyco Collective, in collaboration with the City of Cartagena, has scheduled a week full of activities in the port city on the occasion of this world event that will go from this Friday June 16 To next Saturday 24 and that takes the name of 'EnOrgulleCT'.
The delegate councilor of Equality, David Martinez, presented this Wednesday with the coordinator of Education of the Galactyco Collective, Alberto Alba, and the coordinator of 'EnOrgulleCT', Daniel Guirau, the program of acts of Pride in Cartagena, acts that grow in Number and relevance each year, as does the support of the City Council and private and social institutions.
MULTITUDE OF ACTS
The program will start this Friday, June 16th at 7:00 p.m. with the raising of flags of diversity in the Palace Hall and the performance of the Musical Group Sauces.
It should be noted that this year will have a special relevance the transgender teaches in response to the recent attacks of a campaign carried out aboard a bus throughout the Spanish geography.
After the kick-off, the exhibition 'Naked in the Night' by Manga Portrait will be inaugurated at 21:00 hours in El Abanico (Calle Real).
Then, at 22:00 hours, and in the same place, a tribute will be made to Raffaella Carrà .
In this same place will take place on Sunday at 18:00 hours the colloquium 'Breaking the barriers of distance', which will be borne by the 'youtubers' Ana and Vane.
On Monday 19 there will be another talk-talk, this time at Golden Tree Café (Plaza San Francisco) at 19:30 hours, by Begoña Martínez that will be titled 'LGTBIQ Vocabulary: it is not said "politically correct", it says "treat The people with respect ", and that will present Rocío Tudela.
The next day at the same time, in El Soldadito de Plomo (Calle Príncipe de Vergara), Dr. Manuel Antonio Velandia will give the talk-colloquium 'The body here, the mind there: the construction of identity', which will be presented by Almudena Perez.
On Wednesday 21 will take place in Mr. Witt (San Roque Street) from 19:30 hours the poetry recital 'Escala de Grises', which will feature interventions by Hugo Cano, Dolores Vieites, Elena Trinidad Gomez, Mery Salem , Tomás Carrión, Carlos Alcaraz, Angel Paniagua, Antonio Marín, José Daniel Espejo and Juan de Dios García, as well as Yaeel and Ampi and Carlos Zambrana.
On Thursday will be the Gala of Pride Cartagena, in which will be awarded the Prizes Cristina Esparza Martín.
The ceremony will be held at the Casino de Cartagena (Calle Mayor) at 20:00 hours and will be conducted by Raffaella osCarrá.
It will also be interpreted in sign language.
BIG PARTY
The weekend of Friday 23 and Saturday 24 will be the big days, with the Fiesta EnOrgulleCT on Friday at 9:30 pm in the esplanade of the port where the deputy mayor of the city, Ana Belén Castejón, will be in charge of Read the proclamation, which will also be interpreted in sign language, and then there will be several performances and a marathon of DJ's.
The events will be closed on Saturday with the demonstration, whose motto of this edition is 'For LGTB rights around the world', the later reading of the manifesto and the great closing party that will feature performances and DJ's.
The demonstration will begin at 18:30 hours in the old Puertas de Madrid and will run through the Calle del Carmen, the Doors of Murcia, the Calle Mayor, the Plaza del Ayuntamiento and will end in the esplanade of the port, where the rest of The acts of this last day.
CONTINUE TO FIGHT FOR ADVANCING RIGHTS
The Councilor for Equality stressed the importance of the celebration of the LGTB Pride and noted that there are many reasons for this, in response to people who question that further organizing.
Among the reasons he has listed is the fact that there are still countries in which the death penalty is condemned to be homosexual, that in just twenty nations, equal marriage is legal (in Spain it has been since 2011), the camps Concentration in Chechnya, repeated insults and assaults throughout Europe, the massacre of Orlando's gay discotheque, cases of bullying and a long list of situations he described as "creepy".
For the mayor are "examples to raise awareness, for those who carry out this week of activities" and for those who make more visible to the people of the LGTBI collective.
"What we want to express is against hate to show our joy, against sadness the happiness we feel to be as we are, to show us that day freely as we like," said Martinez, who added that this festive claim goes "for all Those who were silent one day, for all those who can not speak and for those who will continue in silence. "
In addition, the council has claimed to work from all administrations to educate in equality.
"This is something that we do not have to do only from the City Hall," he said, adding that in educational matters the Ministry of Education should include it in the Education Act.
"We will continue to fight for this to happen and for the curriculum to pick it up and work on diversity. The only way to eradicate homophobia is through education," he said.
In this sense Alberto Alba agreed.
"There has been progress but there is still much to do, there are still many ideas embedded in the social subconscious and that precisely the adult we do is transmit, sometimes consciously, sometimes unconsciously to the children, who reproduce them In class, "he lamented.
"We have also met some centers that give them a bit of trouble to treat sexual diversity naturally," added the Education Coordinator of the Galactyco Collective.
"There are still many social clichés that we have to remove," he added.
However, as a positive counterpoint, Alba has acknowledged that positive things are also found in schools and that sexual diversity is becoming more standardized.
Like the mayor, Alberto Alba has advocated the need to continue celebrating this ephemeris, and has argued that the heteronormative system is already established, that is what is considered normal, and a heterosexual person does not have the need to go out to the Street to ask for nothing in this matter, "but you can go out on the street fighting for Human Rights."
In this same line has stated that the LGTB Pride is not a demonstration or a parade and wanted to "highlight the word claim", as "this is still a claim," he said.
"We are claiming Human Rights, and that is something that we can not forget."
CARTAGENA, CITY 'GAY FRIENDLY' AND PIONERA
For his part, Daniel Guirau has said that the Galactyco Collective intends "that the city in the end be declared institutionally as 'Gay friendly'" and added that this may be a benefit at the tourist level in Cartagena and region.
"That calls the LGBT groups to come to an environment in which they are well received."
It should be remembered that Cartagena is the first city in all the Spanish Levante to have a demonstration and, not only that, also to have a whole week of activities, according to have commented the representatives of the Collective Galactyco.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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