Coordinadora E28 de Bizkaia appeared this Friday at a press conference at the Zirika Centre in Bilbao. The groups and individuals that make up the coordinator have made known the motto chosen for June 28 of this year, International Day of LGTB+ Liberation, as well as the program they have organized around the date.

Aware of the importance of protection networks in the health crisis we have experienced as a result of the appearance of the coronavirus, they have led to the motto of calling for the network: “Fight with networks lasts! Persecuted, clandestine, united” (Saretuz The struggle continues! Persecuted, clandestine, unified) is the cry launched this year. “We want to mention networks to survive, to seek refuge, to find ourselves and to know that we are not alone. But also the silenced, hidden or dead, created to fight and fight against those who want us. Or with other groups who are co-combatants,” they explained.

As for the programme, they have made a very good proposal. From 25 June and until 5 July various activities will be carried out: street cinema, round table, awards, presentation of books, colloquium, talk, course, mountain march… In addition to these activities, on 28 June a demonstration will be held in Bilbao, starting at 18:30 from Plaza Moyua and will walk the road to Arenal.

The extraordinary situation experienced in the previous months has made it difficult this year to organise itself, as the organisers have acknowledged. However, they have also drawn lessons from the difficulties: “This exceptional situation shows us that Pride Day is not just an act that is celebrated on 28 June and that it can be suspended. Sexual liberation is an ongoing struggle that takes its utmost expression to strengthen it on 28 June. We have done so in the last 42 years.”

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