The LGBTIQ+ Pride Day is celebrated on June 28. And this year will be a special celebration, as that day marks the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots (New York, United States). These clashes were a milestone in the liberation movement of LGBTIQ+ groups. Since then, it has been half a century, 50 years of struggle for the sexual rights of all people. However, in recent years some LGBTIQ+ groups have asked to reflect both on the evolution of Pride Day and on the initiatives aimed at commercializing those claims and identities, in which a few earn money and organizations want to wash their faces.

In this sense, ELA will carry out the event that will take place in the Navarra School of Theatre, in Calle San Agustín de Pamplona/Iruña. The first to participate will be AMETS Martínez de Heredia Moreno, member of the Lumagorri group. Proud of that speaker! It will present the platform, a platform composed of several LGBTIQ+ bodies from Euskal Herria, which aims to stimulate the anti-capitalist roots of the movement. The public presentation of this platform took place on 15 June and an extract from the founding manifesto explains its objective: "To keep the anti-capitalist roots that are typical of him in the face of repeated attempts to absorb and use with pleasure the fight against the heteropatriarchal system. The LGTBIQ+ movement in the Basque Country will under no circumstances allow the struggle to be distorted during years of sexual liberation through these apparently progressive initiatives, which are fundamentally opposed to the demands of the movement".

Jone Bengoetxea, ELA Equality Officer, will then moderate a debate involving three LGBTIQ+ groups: Almudena Herrera Gómez, Izai Bujanda Cambra and Fermín Zabaltza Alemán. In the words of Jone Bengoetxea, "the purpose of the conference and debate is to reflect on the alienation, cleanliness and depoliticization of the speeches and practices of LGBTIQ+ members, as well as to ask our militants. For this reason, for the title of this day we have chosen: "Pride is not for sale / We are not merchandise". Heteropatriarchal capitalism tries to distort the discourse and struggle of these collectivities to gain great economic benefits and assimilate these radical political struggles, whose ultimate goal is the radical transformation of society. This reality is a reality that more and more bodies are becoming aware and are organizing to cope with it".