"2010: A year to transform." With this title, the celebrations framed within the Pride Festival Lanzarote began this week, a series of events that commemorate Gay Pride on the island for the first time and that ended this Saturday with a parade along the Avenida de las Playas in Puerto del Carmen.
The parade, which included several floats, began at 5:00 p.m. and ended at the Atlántico Shopping Center.
More than 3,000 people, according to the organization, were able to enjoy the intense and festive atmosphere that was breathed on the Avenida de las Playas in Puerto del Carmen. Lots of color, music and dance were the tonic in a very hot afternoon, where several floats from all over the island and the Batucada Villa Pipol enlivened the parade route.
With the arrival of the delegation to the vicinity of the Atlántico Shopping Center, a manifesto was read in favor of the transsexual community, the main axis of the entire week of events, which tried to raise awareness among the population of the difficult situation in which this community finds itself, "which sees how discrimination and rejection still persist in society." The manifesto was given by members of the LGTB collective of Lanzarote and was read in Spanish by Raúl Beltrán and in English by Judith Samper.
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After the reading of the manifesto, several performances began on the stage, which was installed in front of the Alántico Shopping Center. The performances of the Guaracay Ballet, the spectacular "performance" of Lady Gaga Tribute, the official imitators of the Pussycat Girls group, Drag Derrimys and the Antonio Dance School, among others, shone with their own light. The music played until two in the morning with performances by DJ Surfer, DJ Héctor Pérez and DJ Marcos.
From the Lánzate association they affirm that the act "greatly exceeded the expectations of the group. We are delighted with how people have responded." The conejero group began with a program of commemorative events on the 12th, which included exhibitions, film screenings and sports activities. Lánzate hopes that all those people who participated "were left with the message of awareness towards the problems of the transsexual community."