The FLG-LGBTI Family Association claims family diversity from home

GAYLES.TV.- Since 1994 each May 15 Is celebrated the International Family Day. A date to continue claiming family diversity, although this year with the particularity of having to do it from home due to the pandemic of the COVID. 19. The crisis of coronavirus Has left in evidence "the importance of investing in social policies that protect the most vulnerable people and families. It is the families who bear the brunt of the crisis, they are forced to protect their family members, to care for their children who cannot attend school, and to continue with their job responsibilities.", according to United Nations.

«There is always a Rainbow Family by your side»

Taking advantage of the confinement FLG-LGBTI Family Association has launched the campaign “Always display there's a Rainbow Family by your side”And has produced a video featuring families LGTB +. The objective of the campaign is the celebration and the visibility of the diverse families, and also the vindication of rights. Fifteen years ago, non-heteronormative families acquired the status of families with their recognized rights, with the approval of the joint adoption for lesbian and gay couples (3/2005), the law of equal marriage (13/2005), and the law to eradicate LGTBIphobia in Catalonia (11/2014). But after fifteen years of laws that protect them on paper, families LGTB + they remain invisible in many areas of society and many discriminatory situations continue to normalize.

The lack of visibility of diverse families in the documentation and institutional forms, and the difficulties of correctly registering their daughters and sons, are some of the demands of families LGTB +. It is for this reason that the celebration of May 15 He wants to be a speaker to claim the effective equality of rights of these families and their daughters and sons. Below you can see the manifesto of the FLG-LGBTI Family Association and the video they have made to celebrate the International Family Day.