Maria Giralt Castells has received the President Macià Medal for her struggle and commitment to LGBTI rights

GAYLES.TV.- Government of Catalonia has delivered the Medal President Macia a Maria Giralt-Castells. The director of GAYLES.TV has received the award from the conseller Chakir El Homrani for his struggle and commitment to rights LGBTI. Since he was 19 he works defending the rights of the movement LGTBI. In 1977 he organized the first lesbian collective of the Spanish State, within a homosexual organization, the Front d'Alliberament Gai de Catalunya (FAGC).

Giralt She is the founder of the association Gender and LGBT Lab, which develops two main activities: GAYLES.TV and AEQUALIS, report on best practices in LGBTI diversity management in companies. Also vice president of the Catalan Association of LGBTI Companies (ACEGAL), driving force of PRIDE! BCN  and of the commercial axis gaexample of Barcelona and Director of pride! Social BCN.

These awards, initiated in 1938 and reinstated in 1981, recognize people who have stood out for their personal qualities or merits or for the services provided for the benefit of the general interest, within the world of work. Among the 15 people and the 5 award-winning entities there are linked to social issues, such as Obertament, MIFAS and Maria Giralt Castells.

Maria Giralt has expressed her intention to share the medal with the Minister Dolors Bassa, as long as it is not allowed to receive it.

He was also the person in charge of thanking the medals on behalf of the 15 winners with these words:

(then translated into Spanish):

«Honorable Minister Chakir El Homrani, autoritats, familiars, amigues i amics. Tinc l'honor d'agrair-vos, in the name of totes, the persons guardians of the President Macià medals, who are reconeixement als nostres mèrits trabajos. Persons and social rights that treballem per millorar the life of the altres des d'àmbits molt diverse.

I precisely of diversity is the one that would please parlar-vos: Of winning the one for which it is different.

We will talk about LGBTI people, but if you don't know, they are initials that fan referring to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, homes and gifts Transsexuals and Trangèneres, Intersexuals, not binaries, Queer ... People who, in short, SOM them Vostres filles i fills, familiars, friends, companys i companies de feina, veïnes i veïns, who faces ara, malgrat have you who are proteixen from LGBTIphobia, with the Llei 11/2014 of the Generalitat who has completed zinc anys, patim Situations of discrimination, I followed l'escola, la feina, als CAP, the residences of great people, the carrer ...

He was 19 years old and went to the first Gai de l'Estat Espanyol demonstration. To les Rambles de Barcelona there were more than 4000 people, and the one who is most impressed is the great quantity of people who, badly not being homosexuals, are manifestly ambitious in defense of our drets; Associations of women, feminists, workers, unions, students.

Des d'aleshores, hem avançat molt in drets gràcies a la lluita and the commitment of persons and LGBTI persons, to whom it would be more gratifying to dedicate this medal that was awarded in grant. But hem avançat gràcies a la feina, moltes vegades silent, which is fa fa de les administracions. Per això I also dedicate to the Minister Dolors Bassa, who has also been in the defense of our drets, the subtraction of political prisoners, exiles and reprisals.

At a time when you certify political formations try to retreat from our drets, with gifts, with LGBTI, and with the country, we need you to defend diversity in totes les seves vessants, in short, estem parlant of drets humans. Moltes gràcies. »

«Honorable Minister Chakir El Homrani, authorities, relatives, friends and friends. I have the honor to thank you, on behalf of all the people awarded the President Macià medals, for this recognition of our work merits. People and social entities that work to improve the lives of others from very diverse spheres.

And it is precisely diversity that I would like to talk to you about: Overcoming fear that is different.

I want to talk to you about LGBTI people, in case someone doesn't know, they are the initials that refer to Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, Transsexual and Trangender men and women, Intersex, non-binary, Queer ... People who, in short, WE ARE yours daughters and sons, relatives, friends, coworkers, neighbors and neighbors, who still now, despite having laws that protect us from LGBTIphobia, such as Law 11/2014 of the Generalitat, which has now turned five, We suffer from situations of discrimination, whether at school, at work, in Primary Care Centers, in homes for the elderly, on the street ...

When I was 19 I went to the first gay demonstration in the Spanish State. In the Ramblas of Barcelona there were more than 4000 people, and what impressed me the most is the large number of people who, despite not being gay, were demonstrating with us in defense of our rights; Neighborhood associations, feminists, workers, unions, students.

Since then, we have made great progress in rights thanks to the struggle and commitment of LGBTI people and entities, to which I would like to dedicate this medal that you grant me today. But we have also advanced thanks to the work, often silent, that is done from the administrations. For this reason I also dedicate the medal to the counselor Dolors Bassa, who has done so much in the defense of our rights, and to the rest of political prisoners, exiles and reprisals.

At a time when certain political formations try to reverse our rights, as women, as LGBTI, and as a country, we need all of you to defend diversity in all its aspects because, in short, we are talking about human rights. Thank you."

Source: Gayles.tv

Photography: Laia Ventayol

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