Benidorm commemorates International LGTBI+ Pride Day

• The City Council displays the rainbow flag and approves two motions in plenary session to show its support and commitment to this group
• The main events of the 'Pride' take place in the month of September, an event that has already become a national and international reference.

Yesterday, Friday, Benidorm City Council has joined the commemoration of International LGTBI+ Pride Day by hanging the rainbow flag once again from the main balcony of the Town Hall and scheduling a series of events with the aim of publicising and making the demands visible. of this group. Furthermore, coinciding with this celebration, the municipal plenary session has also approved by a large majority, with the only Vox representative voting against, two motions to show its support and commitment to this group.  

The mayor of the city, Toni Pérez, has presided over the institutional photo that the members of the Corporation have taken with the LGTBIQ+ flag, in which Santos Torres, one of the organizers of Benidorm Pride, has also participated as a representative of this group. There, the first mayor and the councilor for Equality, Ángela Zaragozí, together with other councilors, have talked with Torres about the main events that are being organized for this event, which will be held as every year in the month of September and which has already become a national and international reference, attracting thousands of visitors. 

The Equality Councillor explained that the City Council has also organised other activities related to Pride to promote and spread the word about equal rights for all people. On the one hand, the municipal radio station Onda Benidorm hosted a special programme on Thursday related to the LGTBIQ+ community.

In addition, next Tuesday, July 9, within the Culture for Equality cycle, the play 'No more kisses' will be performed, performed by Lara Dibildos, Míriam Vázquez, Íñigo López and Javier Pascual, in the auditorium of the Cultural Centre, for which it will be necessary to have an invitation that those interested can request from July 4 at the Jelena Social Center or at the Cultural Centre itself. 

Motions to the plenary 
Regarding the two motions related to this group that have been approved in plenary by PP and PSOE, one of them is an institutional declaration to reiterate the “firm commitment of this institution to the defense of freedom, dignity of the human being and the respect of all people to live and live their sexual orientation as they freely wish", as well as to "remember, stand in solidarity and raise our voice for all people, from many places in the world, where homosexuality continues to be criminalised, "many countries in which people from the LGTBI community are persecuted, threatened and even executed for simply expressing their feelings." 

The second proposal aims to develop the Second Municipal Plan for Sexual, Family and Gender Diversity of Benidorm 2024-2028, a plan that is a continuation of the one approved in 2016 and which aims to "continue improving the prevention of LGTBIphobia and guarantee well-being and safety" through four lines of action, ten objectives and 23 actions to be developed in the coming years, as highlighted by the Equality Councilor.