Inauguration dthe LGTBI Center of Barcelona with the assistance of 8.000 people in the Open Door Day
GAYLES.TV.- The mayor of Barcelona, Ada Colau, has inaugurated the LGTBI Center of Barcelona showing pride 
to be "the first mayor woman, bisexual and of humble origin" from the city. He has highlighted the role of Barcelona as «regardsworld fight against homophobia»And that the city will not be afraid in the fight against LGTBIofobia. He warned that «they are dark times, in which retrograde people question freedom and love, for this reason, the opening of the Center is a reason for hope«.
The councilor of feminisms and LGTBI, Laura Pérez, he recalled that LGTBI Center part of the Municipal plan for sexual and gender diversity, measures for equality LGTBI 2016-2020 presented at the municipal Plenary in 2016. Laura Pérez has valued that the opening of this center will guarantee rights to the group and will provide «direct attention and social, legal, health support»To those who need it and remember that it is part of the Municipal Plan for Sexual and Gender Diversity. In addition, he explained that they will promote culture and art, with exhibitions, talks and book presentations and that it will be a space open to the neighborhood and the city.
El LGTBI Center It is a historical claim of the LGTBI movement in Barcelona, as recalled Armand de Fluvià. Already in 1985 some activists had pointed out the idea of creating a meeting point for all local LGTBI entities. The president of the Platform of LGTBI Entities of Catalonia, Quim Roqueta, highlighted the inclusive and intergenerational nature of the center and lamented "the partisan use of the right" of the demands of the group. Roqueta He insisted that it is a dynamic center open to ideas.
El LGTBI Center It is located in a municipal space on the street Comte Borrell, 22 of Barcelona, and has facilities of more than 1.200 m2 where specialized services of direct attention to the collective will be offered; will house the Documentation Center Armand de Fluvià, with documentation of the LGTBI movement and will be the permanent headquarters of the entities that make up the LGTBI Platform, although the rest of the entities and individuals may also have spaces, subject to prior reservation.
The Center will be managed by the Platform of LGTBI Entities of Catalonia, which groups the entities FAGC, Observatori contra l'Homofòbia, Casal Lambda, Gais Positius, FLG Famílies LGTBI, Gaylespol, ACGIL, Generem, AMPGIL, Stop Sida, Fundació Enllaç. And it is around the management of the Center that dissenting voices have emerged, such as Jordi Petit, historical leader of the LGBTI movement. Small a few days ago he remembered that the LGTBI platform It does not represent the totality of the LGTBI entities of Barcelona, but it brings together only some of the more 36 associations that are part of the LGTBI associative fabric of the city.
Notwithstanding the director of the LGTBI Center, Andreu Agustí, He assured that the Center's facilities will be open to all LGTBI entities and people in the city: «The center is a historical claim of the group that today takes shape and has been built thinking of carrying out activities open to all citizens, provide service to residents or not of the center and build synergies with the neighborhood and the entire city«.
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Hello, congratulations for such a memorable achievement!
What is the address of this center? Thank you!
Borrell Street, 22 of Barcelona
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