Spanish state: Enough of LGBTI Phobia!

Mobilization is the only way to defend yourself and go for more rights. Our pride is anti-system.

The claims of the LGTBIQ collective once again won the streets of Europe despite the pandemic. A 52 stonewall years, thousands of people demonstrated in the streets of the old continent because "Pride is the party of those of us who were not invited to the party". With different slogans and actions, the week before and after 28 of June, big cities and towns are dyed with the colors of the rainbow, with whom most of the society.

At the by, the Moscow City Council banned marches for the 10th year in a row. The Turkish police harshly repressed the parade prepared because "must protect the peace, safety, general health and morality ". The government of Hungary, headed by Viktor Orban, passed a law that outlaws show materials on LGBT issues to minors 18 years, what prevents talking of homosexuality in educational settings. In Poland there are municipalities that they declared "Free from gay ideology", that is why in Warsaw he concentrated the most massive mobilization on the Continent.

There is a tough fight in progress because right, the far right, the Catholic Church and some governments are bent on attacking the collective. Cuts to rights democratic and social make it increasingly clear that conquests are imposed with mobilization.

In the state Spanish, after an intense year of debates among the government partners (PSOE-United We Can) the preliminary draft of the “Ley Trans”, started his legislative journey. It is a project that establishes, between your points main: the de-pathologization of trans people, that is to say, left be considered sick and will not require medical documents to make the name and gender change; self-determination of the sex, which will make it possible to make the change by the simple will of the interested or interested before civil registry officials and “the right of minors to be heard”, allowing them to change name in the registry at any age and sex from the age of twelve.

Even though there is still a long legal way to go for its final approval, this preliminary draft marks that the struggles that have been taking place for years are going to be end a legal framework to hold back, although we know that nothing will be free, neither simple and that we must continue in the streets demanding that they be fulfilled absolutely all the rights of the LGTBI community, in direct opposition with the reactionary intentions of the PP, Vox y C's, protected in the institutionality of the '78 regime.

And even though It might seem that in the XXI century the sexual choices of each person they would no longer be judged, Saturday 3 the unfortunate news of the Samuel murder, a young man from 24 years who received a brutal beating in the nightlife area of ​​A Coruña. According to his friends, who witnessed the done, the last words Samuel should have heard – just like it does 85 years Federico García Lorca – They were "tea I'm going to kill fagot ".

Once again thousands of people came out to demand a stop to LGTBI-Phobia and there we were with Together and to the left, because we don't want any more hate crimes; each person should have the right to freely live their sexuality. It is what is claimed every year in the pride marches, even if they try to silence it with the blow of the baton. Who are part of the International Socialist League, as SOL in the Spanish State, We actively participate in actions claiming our anti-system pride because, to achieve full rights in all areas of life, it is necessary to defeat capitalism and its defenders, crusaders of oppression and exploitation.

March in Poland