Susanna Griso is one of the most relevant television figures of the last two decades. Since 2006, the communicator has been in charge of presenting the magazine version of Espejo Público, a program that was born as a space for reports ten years ago. Since then she has been on the crest of the wave, covering the most important news in Spanish today and interviewing multiple characters. But there is a part of her that is not so well known.
Griso gave an interview to El Mundo this week, where he was able to openly remember his brother Damián, who died of AIDS. This loss was what prompted the presenter to become a defender of LGTBI rights, one of the many issues that she discussed with Iñako Díaz-Guerra. The Catalan highlighted the problem of acquaintances who encountered greater taboos and problems in the past, as well as a very “reduced” view of the matter.
“I had a brother who died of AIDS, that experience was extremely painful and I know perfectly well what it is like to come out of the closet, rejection and the fact of having and suffering from a disease that at that time was as stigmatized as HIV,” the communicator explained. . She explained that this was one of the reasons why she defended the LGTBI collective. Along with them, there is also the problem of tolerance from years ago, which friends of his lived through.
“I have many friends who today, luckily, have very happy lives with their partners and their families. Now their situation is normalized, but it was complicated for them in childhood and adolescence at a time when Spain was not as tolerant as it is today and as I hope it will continue to be,” he explained, before going into more depth. in the third point: the vision that we have of the situation in Spain, Europe and the rest of the world.
“I think we have a very reduced and very Eurocentric vision of what is happening in the world. Spain is a privileged country in that sense, we are far ahead of other European countries such as Poland or Hungary and, furthermore, Europe does not represent the world. There are countless places where LGTBI rights are not respected, but instead are persecuted and punished with the death penalty. That fight is still going on, ”he concluded. A few words that she complemented with a feminist statement.
“Yes, I am and I will be until the day I die because, while there are 80% of women in the world who do not have real equal rights, we have many reasons and many flags to continue brandishing. The truth is that it does not fit in my head that someone is not, ”she declared. In the same way, she later added a conviction in relation to the Popular Party, which “would be a brake on any claim by Vox to question LGTBI rights or sexist violence.”
