🏳🌈 How it was celebrated GAY PRIDE in MADRID 2021? 🏳🌈- Origin, flag, Chueca ALL about the LGTB COMMUNITY✅
In honor of the fact that during this month of July several activities have been held in Madrid in commemoration of the LGTB pride, I have decided to dedicate the first entry of the Eventos category to these wonderful festivities known as MADO, whose main attraction is the demonstration always held on the first Saturday of July and that in normal terms attracts more than 250,000 tourists from all over the world. A party dedicated not only for people of the LGTB community, but to the entire population regardless of age, sex or origin; under the principle of: "Pride, as an example of coexistence" However, many of us have wondered what exactly are the origins of this party that is becoming increasingly popular, not only in Spain, but also in the rest of the world. If you want to see more about Madrid or some other plans to do, you can click on the Eventos category. Why do we celebrate Gay Pride? To answer this question, we will have to go back to the famous Stonewall riots that you have probably heard about them before, however to understand it better, we must first know its background. During the first half of the twentieth century the struggle of the LGBT community was already being noticed from the creation of literary works, films, etc; to speeches in favor of the rights of homosexuals with figures such as Emma Goldman, a very important figure whose actions were always controversial issues in the United States. In spite of this, these movements did not take root in the society of the time and although it is true that little by little political advances were being made in favor of homosexuals, fascist ideas soon took center stage in the world at that time. Because of the decisions of political figures, they began to deprive homosexuals of their fundamental rights, even ending up imprisoning approximately 100,000 people in the Russian Gulags and Nazi concentration camps. “If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is After the Second World War a fervent desire for a "return to the pre-war social order" grew among the multitude. The United States did not lag behind and decided to establish a tight control by limiting communists, anarchists or homosexuals, among others, who were considered dangerous if they wanted to continue to maintain social security. So much so that in 1952 it was added by the American Psychiatric Association as a sociopathological personality disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) until 1973. *[I pause here to attach a link to the website of the American Psychiatric Association about the people within the LGTB collective who decided to face the treatments to cure homosexuality, it is a very interesting virtual movie that I recommend you to watch ^^]* The origin of gay pride more commonly referred to as LGBT pride, takes place in Greenwich Village, specifically at the Stonewall Inn. In the early years of the movement, many people and private businesses of the collective had settled in this New York city after the Second World War. Many of these businesses were forbidden, but given the great demand they were uncontrollable. The Stonewall Inn was one of the only places in New York where effeminate men and masculine women could go. Owned by three members of the Italian Mafia, once a week a policeman would come to collect the gayola (called in spanish), an envelope of money used as a bribe, since the establishment had no liquor license, no running water, and no emergency exit.Stonewall clients were greeted by a bouncer who checked through a peephole to see if they were over 18, and to prevent undercover police from entering they had to look like transgender people, transvestites, or effeminate men or masculine women. In the event that a police officer broke in, the discotheque lights were turned on to warn clients. Prior to the Stonewall riots police checks increased in the area and two more businesses had already been shut down: Checkerboard and Tele-star. On June 28th International LGBT Pride Day is celebrated in honor of the Stonewall riots, at 1.20 a.m, four policemen dressed as civilians managed to enter the place to check its legality, seeing that it was illegal they called through the bar's pay phone for reinforcements. Once Detective Charles Smythe and Deputy Inspector Seymour Pine arrived, they announced their presence by shouting, the lights came on and the police blocked the doors: bewilderment, suffering and anger, that's how that early morning can be described as. “Things happened so fast you kind of got caught not knowing. All of a sudden The straw that broke the camel's back was the arrest of a woman, who beaten with a truncheon after complaining that her handcuffs were too tight, encouraged the crowd accumulated outside the door of the bar to fight for their rights by looking them in the face and asking: "Why don't you do something?" The people without prior organization and totally improvised, began overturning police vans, freeing detainees and forcing the withdrawal of all the police officers who had been assembled there that night. From then on the riots did not stop and even tourists, onlookers and police provocateurs joined the cause. Although the gay pride march is the official celebration that commemorates these events, it is also true that at that time there was a growing group of the collective who did not agree with what happened, ashamed of the behavior adopted that morning and the days after. LGTB: What means? We have already discovered the origins of the collective, but actually: what does the LGBT+ movement actually mean The meaning of LGTB or LGBT has its origin in the nineties, when the four groups that make up its acronym: In recent years there has been a desire to include within the acronym to include more groups of the collective: However, with more or less acronyms, the movement includes all those people who had to fight for their rights because of their orientation and who are still fighting for it today. MADO´21 Unfortunately due to the health situation, the mythical gay pride parade could not take place this 2021 either, as well as other activities: the Grand Final of Mr. Gay Pride Spain, postponed to October 2021, or the international conference on human rights of Madrid Summit 2021, postponed to next year 2022, but also replaced by an alternative webinar via Zoom held on Friday, July 2. However, despite the fact that it was not held as usual, the joy, culture and fun characteristic of these festivities were assured. MADO'21 started on Friday, June 25 and ended on Sunday, July 4. If you are passionate about culture like me, I recommend you to go next year to these festivities, a cultural feast where respect and love for oneself and others governs. How to get to Chueca? We start the day traveling in our reliable metro of Madrid to get from line 5 to Chueca, you can take this line from practically all the others, except line 8, line 11 and line 12, which you will have to access from another line. Once you get out, you will find yourself in Plaza de Chueca where mostly there are restaurants, so now you know, in Chueca you will never be hungry, later I will recommend you some restaurants in the area, because there is so much to choose from that you never know 🤪 What to do during Pride Week in Madrid? Nowadays with the health restrictions the ways to enjoy the festivities have changed a lot, activities have had to be canceled and this year there have not been as many performances as expected from other years. However, this is not an obstacle for our festivities, we have had to reinvent the event and all have been go right: events have been retransmitted online, several indoor shows have been planned with limited capacity during the months of June and July, if you click here you can still consult the agenda But if you're still not sure what to do, I've prepared an easy and cheap planning for you to do in Chueca, that you will like for sure and you can always do it next year. 10 a.m Breakfast: 11 a.m. Visit plaza de Pedro Cerolo: during the pride it is the most important square where this year the proclamation was held. 12 p.m Sign up for the Free Tour of Chueca and Malasaña: it lasts 2 hours, what better way to visit the city accompanied by a professional in the field? 2 p.m Lunch Time!:
4 p.m Walk Calle Hortaleza to Gran Vía: one of the attractions of Chueca is its streets, and during Pride week there is also a reference to culture, the streets are nicely decorated and you might be interested in a store or two. 6 p.m Snack: 7 p.m Access one of the events on the agenda: concerts, theater... there are many activities to do and they are usually in the afternoon/evening. 9 p.m Last meal of the day: And that's all for today, I hope this post has been useful for you, if you want you can leave a comment with your suggestions for future posts. Thank you very much for all your support and have a nice day <3 Dedicated to a little person who did not deserve to live what he lived,
Samuel Luiz, rest in peace. For less deaths, aggressions and harassment, and more respect.
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