Today, May 17, we celebrate the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia worldwide. One more day that we must translate as a call to generosity, intelligence and sensitivity. Again, the ...
Today, May 17, we celebrate the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia worldwide. One more day that we must translate as a call to generosity, intelligence and sensitivity.
Again, the calendar invites us to remember a "against" date, to reflect on our nature and our behavior. And above all, to raise awareness about the need for coexistence between different people that requires the survival of the human being on our planet.
If we look back, we can see that the most bloody armed conflicts have been the result of disparities. Wars of religion, clashes for racial supremacy, to defend a single and unquestionable cause. Always attacks on the different, on those who think, act or feel differently.
Perhaps we should understand that the true wealth of humanity, the factor that makes us advance is precisely that heterogeneity that leads to debate, and from its hand, to progress.
Let us therefore appreciate the enormous variety of races, thoughts, tastes and opinions of people and towns as an engine to achieve a more just and egalitarian society.
And let's end the "against" days because we have eliminated their reason for being. Let's erase from the calendar the International Day against child aggression, the World Day of Awareness of Abuse and Mistreatment in Old Age, the International Day against the Exploitation and Trafficking of Women, or the International Day against Racial Discrimination.
To finish and radically changing the subject, I do not want to fail to mention an International Day of a very different nature, which we commemorate tomorrow, May 18: The International Museum Day.
Because together with the days of denunciation there are the days of celebration. And in my opinion, it is a reason for joy and recognition that human beings are able to value in its fair measure the conservation and protection of our culture, our infinite knowledge, the memory of the achievements and the memory of the mistakes made. To at least try not to reproduce them again.
Eva de Anta, Councilor for Culture of the Arrecife City Council
