Carla Antonelli dedicates the Gold Medal of the Island of Tenerife to the LGTBIQ+ community: «I got emotional, I cried«
The senator and activist Carla Antonelli has dedicated to the collective LGTBIQ+ the Gold Medal of the Island of Tenerife which this Thursday granted him the Cabildo and claimed the “democratic memory so that barbarism, hatred and intolerance towards diversity never happen again” not even in Canary Islands nor in Spain.
"Thank you so much, I was moved when I found out, I cried. Suddenly, memories of these last 47 years came flooding back since the day I left my native Tenerife and Güímar, the forced exiles and the melancholy that takes over your life, the lives of all the LGTBIQ+ people who changed forever.”, she wrote on social media.
A medal full of pride and emotion
Thus, he pointed out that the medal will be “for all of them”, also for those who “They abandoned before their natural time had come". "We remember and keep each and every one of you in mind, this is for you.”, he highlighted.
Antonelli He thanked the recognition of Cabildo and the political formations that voted and promoted that he received "such great recognition".
In the plenary agreement the Cabildo highlights their important contribution and fight for the rights of the collective LGBTIQ + and its contribution to the freedom of all Tenerife society and to the benefit of the island of Tenerife.
