The day arrives. Tomorrow Saturday, July 1, the great State Pride Demonstration 2023 is celebrated in Madrid. One million attendees are expected to attend, some 300,000 more people than in last year’s edition, according to data handled by Francisco Martín, Government delegate in the Community of Madrid.
The march will begin at 7:00 p.m. at the Glorieta de Carlos V and will run to the Plaza de Colón, partly on foot and partly by car, in which 46 floats will participate. Also, as a novelty, you will see a batucada. The floats will be placed in the Plaza de Méndez Álvaro, from where they will start the march.
Between 4:00 p.m. on July 1 and 8:00 a.m. on July 2, on the occasion of the demonstration open traffic cuts through the area of ??Recoletos, Castellana, Jerónimos, Pacífico, Adelfas, Almagro and Trafalgar, which is where the parade is expected to pass.
The march, convened by the State Federation of Lesbians, Gays, Trans, Bisexuals, Intersexuals and More (Felgtbi) and Cogam, Lgtb Collective, will conclude in the Plaza de Colón, where the organizers will read the manifesto.
The 12 demands of the Felgtbi group of families are the following: agile and homogeneous adoption processes in all the autonomous communities that prioritize the interest of the minor; agile resolutions of parental authority of children in foster care towards foster families; the recognition of multi-parenthood, so that minors who grow up in reconstituted families are legally protected; the legalization of non-binary paternity and maternity; equity policies for women’s couples, to compensate for the double salary and gender discrimination they suffer; the free mobility of lgtbi families, at least, in the EU.
The inclusion of family diversity in all educational cycles is also claimed; the incorporation of family diversity in textbooks; the addition of family diversity in the forms; the non-presumption of cisheterosexuality in the educational system; the consideration of attacks and bullying against children of lgtbi families as hate crimes; and greater investments for the third sector, especially for family activism.
Despite the progress achieved in this area, the organizers denounce that “legal equality is only the first step towards real equality”, and argue that “hate and discrimination, much to our regret, are still present in the streets and in the institutions”.
For this reason, the march will tour Madrid to “celebrate the rights conquered and embrace diversity” and to “demand equal rights for all families, vindicate the implementation of the recently approved Lgtbi Law and demand the urgent creation of a State pact against hate crimes.”
