GAYLES.TV.- From the moment it was announced that reading the proclamation of the MADO run by the jury of MasterChef the controversy was served. The boiling point of social networks jumped through the air and in less than 24 hours the campaign organized through Change.org with the slogan "NO to the jury of MasterChef as preachers of the Pride of Madrid 2016, they do not represent us" collected 11.468 signatures.
Finally AEGAL (association of businessmen) that together COGAM and FELGTB MADO, responsible for the organization of the Pride in Madrid, has decided to retract and suspend the "proclamation of the famous", thus avoiding Samantha Vallejo-Nágera, Jordi Cruz and Pepe Rodríguez, members of the MasterChef jury, do your reading.
In the brief statement AEGAL does not clarify the reasons for the decision but instead aims at a response to the mobilization in social networks and does not offer an alternative, being limited to the suspension: "AEGAL deeply regrets having hurt so many sensitivities with this choice. That is why we have agreed and decided not to perform the act of the proclamation as planned with the criers we proposed.
And point ball, "we will continue to report." The reaction capacity they have had is laudable, but an explanation of why MasterChef has been rejected or even why it was considered adequate in its day is lacking.
The issue is that now supporters that the proclamation had been read by the jury of the contest, they say they feel ashamed of the ridicule done to veto in the act to "four heterosexuals", speak of heterosexismo and incoherence of the collective LGTBI to discriminate them. They also claim that it would have had a media revenue that will now prevent us from reaching more people. And that you go to know if we have lost what they had to say to us, that it went and moved us to the core.
But is that in no case in the note signed by more than 10.000 people questioned that they were heterosexual, what was pointed out is that "LGTBI people and civil rights are the center and the reason for this celebration. It is vital, therefore, to give voice to our collective and preserve the essence of Pride of Madrid as a vehicle of expression for LGTB people. "
The members of the MasterChef jury have unfortunately been controversial for their comments and macho attitudes who have gone from asking a contestant if her husband gave her permission to participate until drooling before the curves of a candidate to participate. Such attitudes and not heterosexual status is what makes them not be the ideal criers for the MADO and as the petition also collects, that honor was not granted to "other public figures who are known for their commitment to the mission fundamental of this event: the promotion of equality and the rights of LGBT people, rejection of hate-motivated behavior, and the promotion of non-discrimination. "
In a way it seems that what they had to tell us in the pregon will be better than they try to communicate in the day to day in its program, because yes it is certain that they reach many people and for that reason, precisely, its responsibility with respect to the ideology that transmit is tremendous.
Happy weekend!
Sources: Change.org, I am dancing, El País
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