The proclamation of satisfaction lgtbiq+ 2025 plant face to the reactionary wave: “Not a step back” | LGTBIQ+ | EUROtoday

The phrase freedom wraps the Plaza de Pedro Zerolo in Madrid immediately. It is the liberty to like who you need, with out complexes, with out punishments, with out worry. Also, and maybe extra essential, that of being and exists. All these freedoms have been breathed immediately in music, in gestures, even within the clothes of the 1000’s of people that have gone to this iconic place within the Chueca neighborhood to attend the departure gun of the LGTBI+ Pride Week in Madrid.

The one in command of conducting the act has been the Plexy, a drag Become an emblem of the satisfaction of Madrid (Mado), particularly the proclamation, which has been presenting for greater than twenty years with out failing to a single appointment. From the stage he has taken the chance to say the acquired rights: “Not a step back. You have to move forward. There are many things to solve, but step on a step get things.”

This yr, these in command of giving the proclamation have been Blanca M. Rodrigo, Carlos González, and Yenosi. They are the protagonists of Marilivethe final collection of the Javis, who tells the story of a lady who accompanies and helps Gais males in his acceptance course of. “Be marilive It is like being Hamelin’s flutist with mice, ”explains Heido Balduz, which is considered a marilive And she is very happy with the series and with the proclamation poster. “It is a determine that takes care of us. It makes us bridge and helps us settle for us,” explains her friend, Jesús Gormaz, who accompanies her in the front row and has claimed the bisexual reality: “It could be very little seen.”

“This yr I’ll ask for I’ll ask that we’re all united,” said Plexy minutes later. “There could be no subgroups inside our group. If we’re separated we lose power.”

Several of the artists who have taken the stage have expressed concern about the global reactionary wave that threatens those little advances. One of the most alarming news has occurred in Europe, specifically in Hungary, where his prime minister, Víctor Orbán, prohibited Budapest’s pride manifestation, although finally, challenging the veto and the manifestations of the extreme right convened, it was celebrated and was a success.

For actress Yeni, who plays Leo in the Javis series, it is not necessary to go as far as extremist as Orbán to be a matter of concern. “Just a few months ago, the government of this community [la de Madrid] He attacked LGTBIQ+ rights not wanting to eliminate false conversion therapies, ”he said in reference to the decision in February of President Isabel Díaz Ayuso to ally with Vox to vote against considering these torture a crime.

The speech of the influencer Samantha Hudson has also referred to these pseudotherapies only a few days after Congress began the procedures to be punished with jail penalty. “Do not tease us. No to reconversion therapies or the mom who gave start to them. As a lot as they insist we won’t stop to exist,” he said after interpreting Luis Miguélez his version of Shouting lovethe pride anthem of this year.

To the place some politicians have attended, such as the Minister of Equality, Ana Redondo (PSOE), the socialist spokeswoman in the Assembly of Madrid, Mar Espinar, the most Madrid, Manuela Bergerot, the spokeswoman of the PSOE in the City Council of the Capital, Reyes Maroto or the Council of Family Policies, José Fernández (PP), among others. Redondo has also requested resistance against “the reactionary wave” that intends to “return to individuals LGTBIQ+ to the closet.”

This pride has a powerful symbolic burden: this Thursday there are 20 years of approval of the Equal Marriage Law in Spain, which allowed same -sex couples to marry and adopt. Currently, Spain is the fifth best country in Europe to be LGTBIQ+: one has dropped one with respect to last year, but up five if compared to 2022.

The Spanish fall occurs the same year in which initiatives have been presented to cut LGTBIQ+ Rights, as has happened in Valencia or Madrid, where the Popular Party controls both the regional and municipal government.

At current, 63 United Nations international locations punish non -heterosexuality. There is just not a normative cause to be persecuted, imprisoned or killed.