The general secretary of the PSOE of Lanzarote, Dolores Corujo, has made a call for "massive participation" in the events scheduled this June 28 on the occasion of the International LGTBI+ Pride Day 2023. "Let's achieve a joint mobilization of the entire society that serves to respond firmly to those who intend to threaten the freedoms and rights conquered," she expresses.
Corujo emphasizes that "attacking the rights of a part of society, is attacking the entire society and against the pillars on which we have built these more than four decades of democracy in Spain." Therefore, she emphasizes that the appointment with the polls on July 23 "is much more than an election: we decide between social Spain or the Spain of cuts; between the Spain with space for everyone or the Spain that isolates, discriminates and separates; the Spain of coexistence, diversity and tolerance or the intolerant Spain that points out."
"The argument of the extreme right returns, together with the PP, to the darkest and grayest past in the history of Spain"
Corujo highlights that "it has now been 18 years since the socialist government presided over by José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero approved the equal marriage law, making our country the third in the world to achieve such social progress." And she adds that "we remember the words spoken then by Zapatero, his defense of "the unstoppable forces of freedom and equality." "Now, that speech is still fully valid, because we observe with concern how the argument of the extreme right returns, hand in hand with the Popular Party, to the darkest and grayest past in the history of Spain."
"It is more necessary than ever to defend the colors with which the flag of freedom flies"
When Spain "reaches the age of majority in this 2023" in terms of LGTBI+ rights, she continues, it is "more necessary than ever to defend the colors with which the flag of freedom flies", so she rejects "that regrettable nostalgia for times when to love, feel or be there was a single code."
The candidate explains that the meaning of Pride, for the PSOE, goes much "beyond a specific support or a day for reflection and awareness." "Talking about LGTBI+ Pride is talking about a way of being, feeling and living. Talking about Pride is, in Spain, talking about progress and a space of conquests where our party, from a permanent activism, has always had a lot to say," she concludes.