The city of Valencia is preparing to live this Saturday a great demonstration that under the slogan “Pride of all, rights for all” will run through the streets of Cap and Casal to celebrate Pride Day. It is expected to be a mass march (it has always been in Valencia), but this time even more vindictive if possible given the controversy surrounding some municipal pacts and the imminent arrival of Vox in power.
Although the Lambda collective explained that the motto chosen for the march refers to “all the people who have been left out of the LGTBI state law: non-binary, migrants in an irregular administrative situation and trans minors”, surely the political news does not pass unnoticed by many of the protesters.
Two days after a person designated by Vox held the position of second authority of the Valencian Community – the Presidency of Les Corts Valencianes -, Compromís called for massive participation in the LGTBI Pride demonstration. The coalition reported that the main referents of Compromís, Joan Baldoví and the deputies in Les Corts, Joan Ribó and the councilors of the City Council of Valencia, the head of the list in Congress Àgueda Micó and the number two Alberto Ibáñez, among others , will participate.
The Compromís deputy and LGTBI activist Francesc Roig pointed out that they will not let “the governments of the PP and Vox lead us to black and white, for this reason, this Saturday we will take the colors out of all those who make hatred their ideology and those who with their Shame pacts encourage homophobia and transphobia in their governments.
For her part, the spokesperson for the socialist municipal group in the Valencia City Council, Sandra Gómez, also encouraged the public to attend the Pride demonstration this Saturday to demonstrate that Valencia is an “open, free and proud” city and to claim ” the city that we are despite the governments that we are going to have”. In this sense, she stressed that attending on this occasion is “much more important” than other years because now the ultra-right is “at the gates” of governing.
Finally, the socialist leader encouraged “proudly waving the LGTBI flag”, as her party has proposed after controversies such as that of Nàquera.
As with the issue of gender violence, the content of some local agreements (the regional agreement does not mention the LGTBI collective) is generating rejection by the left and local groups. Thus, faced with the prohibition to hang rainbow flags in municipal offices that are put in writing in the Nàquera pact, some towns governed by the PP such as Valencia have decided to display these banners.
In fact, it will not be the only protest action of the Executive led by María José Catalá, since the new mayoress has decided that the façade of the City Hall will also be illuminated, something that was not foreseen.
