Castellón celebrates Pride Day this Saturday with multiple casualties, both in the ranks of LGTBI groups and in the political circle. The municipal government of the PP, led by the mayor, Begoña Carrasco, and co-organizer of the event together with the LGTBI Platform of Castelló, has been left alone. His partner in the local executive, Vox, will not support the appointment due to his refusal to “promote from the city council acts of support for groups that only seek to gain power and receive subsidies.” But the ultra party has gone further. According to the spokesperson and councilor for Security at the City Council, Antonio Ortolá, “Vox will never support the LGTBI community.”
The municipal spokesperson for Vox has announced that the councilors of his municipal group will distance themselves from the Pride Day events and has attacked the PP’s support for a day in which the Trans Children Platform participates “which, under the LGTBI umbrella, “It sexualizes minors and does not protect their innocence.” Thus, he has accused the PP of taking political advantage.
PSPV and Compromís have also distanced themselves, but as a show of support for the associations that denounce “the continuous contempt of the Begoña Carrasco government for the group and the whitewashing of policies that go against LGTBI rights.” They criticize the fact that they have been turned away in the organization of an event that the PP has “appropriated” “without counting on anyone” and with “total opacity and zero publicity, as clear evidence that this act bothers them,” he said. stated the secretary of LGTBI policies of the PSPV-PSOE, Arantxa Aragonés. Compromís, for its part, accuses the mayor of “wasting” in less than a year the credibility gained by the city council before the LGTBI community and regrets her “will” to “eliminate any protest content from the LGTBIQ+ Pride Day demonstrations and to create a business around which should be a space of struggle and plurality, that is why they are responsible for this breakup,” added the spokesperson for the group, Ignasi García.
Since the call for the event launched by the LGTBI Platform of Castelló a week ago, the decline in invitations has occurred. The first, by the LGTBI Platform of the Valencian Community, which has decided not to participate in the events scheduled this weekend “due to the passivity and almost no communication in the organization of this event.” Podem also gets off.
Collectives such as LGTBIQ+ Queerfest left the Platform months before, last March. “We do not want to collaborate by carrying out LGTBI policies with parties that agree with the extreme right and their LGTBIphobic initiatives,” they indicated in the manifesto with which they were dismissed, in which they also criticized the commercialization of the group that the regional executive is pursuing and the obstacles to stopping the participation of the associative fabric in public policies.
The mayor, Begoña Carrasco, presented this Thursday the program of events for Pride Day, “agreed upon by the Department of Equality at all times with the LGTBIQ+ Platform”, which includes the usual demonstration and a free party in Juez Borrull Square. During her intervention, the first mayor assured that Castellón is a “plural, tolerant and welcoming city that supports diversity, because in Castellón everyone is free to love whoever they want.” She has also defended the government that she leads: “Above all, it respects people and equality between them, without discrimination, without prejudice, that is why we govern for everyone.”
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