The June 28 Coordinator has called a demonstration in Bilbao on Friday afternoon against the “violence we suffer from being outside this cysexist and hetero-normative system” to join the anti-fascist resistance. The mobilization, starting at 19:00 hours from Elíptica Square, will go through the multiple violence suffered by the LGTBI collective in Donostia.

On the one hand, they will denounce “the hate attacks on sexual diversity that occur outside of our environment,” the coordinator explained. However, they will also look at the attacks in their field: “Those that happen in our house, in our streets, in our schools, in our work, in our networks of relationships.” They will require political representatives and institutions to resolve all these attacks, “instead of being accomplices and passive spectators of these situations.” In this sense, they are going to demand “material and real solutions”.

The demonstration will also give way to many other complaints: “Hate speeches of various political and religious forces, ‘trifachive’ speeches against the LGTB+ collective, actions of the Order of Hear bus, words of the Catholic church against what they call gender ideology, or in favor of therapies to cure homosexuality.” Not only that, they will also denounce pink capitalism and pinkwashing, emphasizing that institutions and political parties use it to bring revenue to collective suffering: “We denounce that the Provincial Council of Bizkaia and the City Council of Bilbao devote their strength and interest to organizing the Pride (LGTBI Pride Day) for a few, while the Provincial Council offers LGTB+ policies a very small part of its budget.” For its part, the City Council of Bilbao added that it maintains the regulations that allow the racist, LGBTBIfobo and fascist use of the street, while the collective awaits the protocol against LGBTBIphobia ordered by the municipality.

In addition to all this, they will also report that “the police that is an oppressive force” is trying to enter their fight through the GayLesPol association.

Furniture in different locations

In addition to the demonstration in Bilbao, mobilizations will also be held in other parts of Euskal Herria on the occasion of the day against LGBTBIphobia. In Pamplona, under the motto “Self-defense in the face of violence”, LuGaTiBeK has called a rally at 19:00 in the City Hall square. EHGAM has also called a concentration in Donostia under the motto “We Want to Live Without LGBTBIphobia”, at 19:30 on the Boulevard. The Coordinator of 28 June, composed of Lumagorri, B.A.L.A., Marika of Errekaleor and Bilgune Feminist of Vitoria-Gasteiz, calls mobilization under the motto "your hell our paradise". The concentration was held at 19:00 hours in front of the new cathedral.