“For our rights, for our lives: with Pride”, with this vindictive motto the demonstration of ‘Pride 2023’ began this Saturday, July 1, through the streets of Madrid. A total of 46 floats have filled the capital of Spain with colors, concluding its journey for another year in the Plaza de Colón where the traditional manifesto has been read before thousands of attendees.
A text signed by 111 organizations in which family diversity and equal rights are embraced, and in which any type of hate speech is completely rejected. “We demand that the political parties sign at once a State Pact against hate speech. A pact that reinforces social and political consensus in defense of groups in vulnerable situations like the LGTBIQ+ collective, but also Roma people, the homeless, people with HIV, people with disabilities and women”, they begin by expressing.
The ‘Pride’ that lives in Madrid is the largest in Europe. An international benchmark for peace, equality, diversity, inclusion and freedom. For this reason, in this manifesto also the increase of “hate traffickers” is denounced loudly and of “discrimination, harassment, insults, aggression, violence, fear and the closet.” “They insult us so that we go back to the closet,” they point out.
“Fight to the end”
The thousands of protesters who have filled the Plaza de Colón have not hesitated to applaud the most demanding fragment of the ‘Pride 2023’ manifesto: “If we do not stop the advance of those who hate us, everything we have achieved can disappear very quickly. As we are aware of this, today, here, forcefully and clearly (…) we are going to make it clear that we are going to fight until the end for our rights”. In unison, and without fear, they shout: “If they touch one of us, they touch us all.”
“They are not going to succeed in dividing us. That the LGTBIQ+ movement is feminist. That trans rights are feminist. That our rights are also a guarantee of the rights of women. And that, if we fall, the next ones will be the women, all the women. We are going to do it together, united, strong, always, against hate”, is another of the main messages of the manifesto. Affirm that “This is the battle of our generation” and that we must all be “the containment dam”: “We are on time, because together we can do everything and, because if they separate us and discourage us, everything will be lost.”
The demands of ‘Pride 2023’
- Agile and homogeneous adoption processes in all the CCAAs that prioritize the interest of the minor.
- Agile resolutions of parental authority of children in foster care to foster families.
- Recognition of multiparenthood so that minors who grow up in reconstituted families are legally protected.
- legally possible non-binary paternity and maternity.
- Equality policies for couples of women to compensate for the double wage and gender discrimination they suffer.
- Free mobility of LGTBIQ+ familiesAt least in the European environment.
- Textbooks that reflect family diversity.
- The forms must include all the existing family diversity.
- Let there be no presumption cisheterosexuality in the educational system.
- Aggressions and bullying against children of LGTBIQ+ families must be considered hate crimes.
