The demonstration organized by Galactyco asks for more support from the administrations and society for the LGTBI + community
The EnorgulleCT 2022 demonstration, organized by the Galactyco collective to claim the rights of the LGTBI + community, brought hundreds of people to the streets of downtown Cartagena this Saturday afternoon. Under the slogan ’30 years of Struggle, Activism, Rights and Resilience’, the one chosen by the State Federation of Gays, Lesbians, Bisexuals and Trans people and the associations that make it up, the participants denounced the attacks on people because of their sexual orientation. They also demanded legal and social advances in equality and rights.
In a festive atmosphere, where there was no lack of music, rainbow flags, choreographic groups, Carnival troupes and various floats, the march made it possible to launch messages of denunciation and in favor of respect and freedom. “Life is not to be lived inside a drawer,” read on the side of a cabinet on wheels, through which the public was encouraged to pass. And a girl carried a banner with the phrase: “You like to see us in porn, but you hate to see us in real life”.
The demonstration started from the Plaza de España around eight in the afternoon, one hour later than expected, and ended in the Plaza Héroes de Cavite. Carrying the main banner and dancing to the rhythm of a batucada were, at the head, the deputy of the PSRM Carmina Fernández, María Marín, of United We Can, and the former mayor and councilor of MC José López.
The group No Te Prives took out the banner ‘Against hate, LGTBI state law now’ and PSOE, United Left-Greens, More Region and the Federation of Neighborhood Associations and other groups also took out theirs. And the occupants of a little train chanted: “Families united will never be defeated.”
“Don’t look the other way”
At the end of the parade, the manifesto was read, which included a memory of the “murder of Samuel Luiz almost a year ago”, in reference to the young man killed by a beating in La Coruña. There was also an express reference to “the number of attacks suffered by the LGTBIQ+ population, which are being reported more and more in police stations, barracks, courts and social networks.” This situation, the organizers explained, “has to do with how we are read, how we are looked at, with how our corporalities, identities, expressions, orientations are understood, which continue to be pathologized and questioned, considered inferior and harmful… and how points to us.”
«Every day a minor suffers from homophobia, lesbophobia, transphobia or biphobia in schools or institutes, every day a couple feels intimidated on the street if they publicly show their affection, every day someone is despised by their own family, even expelled from your home. Every day, in some schoolyard, someone is bullied at the cry of “faggot, bollera, tomboy or travelo”, they assured in Galactyco, whose president is Alberto Alba. And they asked that teachers, co-workers, bosses, politicians, neighbors and friends stop »looking the other way«.
Likewise, the organizers pointed out that “we have laws that protect us and that try to favor the integration of the LGBTI community in all areas,” but “that are not being applied.” And he assured that it happens due to “the passivity, cowardice and lack of respect of those who try to stop it for political interests, of those who do not believe in it and of those who directly want to abolish them.
“These are laws that were approved in our parliaments. They talk about our health care, our educational system, the treatment by the State Security Corps and Forces, families and the magnificent intention of achieving full equality, “said Galactyco. But he called for greater involvement of the public administration “to attend to sexual and gender diversity” at the level of “health, educational and administrative” policy. After the demonstration, in the Plaza del CIM there was a concert by Soraya and Sandra Meroño, Begoña y los Oblicuos, Álex Guirado and the ‘dj’ José Sánchez.
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