This Tuesday, June 28, is the International LGTBI Pride Day, and during the day both the Cabildo of Lanzarote and different town councils of the island have held a series of events to commemorate it.
The Cabildo of Lanzarote has celebrated Pride Day in an event during which several manifestos have been read by the associations Lánzate, LanzaEntiende and Crysallis Canarias. In addition, the first island corporation will illuminate during the night its facade with the colors of the rainbow flag and with a message to highlight the 30 years of struggle of the LGTBI collective in Spain.
The institutional event, which took place at 12 noon at the main entrance of the institution, was attended by the president of the Cabildo of Lanzarote, María Dolores Corujo, and the Minister of Equality, Myriam Barros, as well as other representatives of the Cabildo and the town councils of the island.
“On a day like today, we reiterate our commitment to continue promoting attitudes and policies that favor social awareness, for an effective change of mentality that eradicates LGTBIphobic attitudes and rejection of them”, said María Dolores Corujo, who has shown her “special concern for the multiple cases documented internationally that show, even today, the criminalization in some countries of homosexuality and transsexuality, the deprivation of rights and legal discrimination, as well as the impunity of these crimes”.
In response, the president of the Cabildo of Lanzarote has revalidated the commitment of the first island corporation “to a society that respects gender diversities, capable of eradicating hatred and discrimination”. “We will continue working for a world of absolute tolerance, freedom and equality”, she said.
In the same line, the Minister of Equality, Myriam Barros, said that the Cabildos should be “guarantors of a clear strategy to fight for equality” as well as “essential and irreplaceable agents for the protection of the rights and freedoms of all citizens, regardless of race, sex, religion, opinion or any other personal or social condition or circumstance”.
“We have always wanted to distinguish this island of ours as a different space because it is, in its forms, in its volcanoes, in its heritage; because we are a hard but loving land and we want to make all people feel that welcome regardless of their sexual identity”, added Myriam Barros.
The rainbow flag flies in Arrecife
The mayor of Arrecife, Astrid Pérez, and the first deputy mayor of the capital's City Council, David Toledo, raised this Tuesday together with representatives of the LGTBI collective and in the presence of other members of the Municipal Corporation the Rainbow Flag in front of the main entrance door of the City Council, on the occasion of the celebration of the International Day of LGTBI Pride.
Previously Astrid Pérez read a manifesto in which she emphasized the right of lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transsexuals, transgender and intersex people “to live in more tolerant societies that are able to coexist in diversity and, above all, that promote the fulfillment of the rights of all LGTBI people”. "We must not cease in our efforts to build increasingly fairer environments”, based “on principles as essential as equality, tolerance, respect and freedom”, added Pérez.
“We are totally against any type of discrimination based on sexual orientation and we defend the right to full equality, to dignity, and to the free development of sexual and/or gender identity”, concluded the mayor.
Tías joins the celebration of Pride Day
The International LGTBI Pride Day in Tías has been celebrated and claimed through an event held at 13.30 hours in the Town Hall square.
This space has hosted the reading of manifestos by the groups Lánzate, Chrysallis and Lanzaentiende, who proclaimed their rights and asked that “the Law for the Equality of Trans People and the Guarantee of LBTBI Rights be made a reality now”, approved this Monday in the Council of Ministers.
The vindictive and celebratory event was also attended by members of the government group and staff of the City Council. After the reading of the manifestos, the timplista José Vicente Pérez and the dancer Fran Vega performed.
