The Pride! Barcelona tests an alternative date for its celebration

Pride! Barcelona will be held on June 25, 26 and 27 in a "virtual" and televised manner

GAYLES.TV.- Pride! Barcelona It is looking for new dates for the celebration of pride, and for the moment, it suspends the physical activities of the month of June and replaces them with one "virtual" and televised version. Pride LGTBI de Barcelona had positioned itself in recent years as the 2nd largest celebration in the city, with more than 400.000 attendees in the 2019 edition. The event, which combines vindication and celebration, was going to celebrate the days 25, 26 27 y de Junio in different spaces.

However, the crisis of COVID-19 makes it impossible to hold the acts of the pride!. So the organizing entity ACEGAL (Chamber of Commerce LGTBIQ) and the 32 LGBTI entities that are part of the Pride, have chosen to maintain visibility virtually. In addition, an agreement has been reached with the city's public television Betevé so that the week of June 27 there are some hours of special programming on the occasion of pride! BCN. The content can be viewed from anywhere in the world online. The idea is that the LGBTIQ + collective continue to have a platform for expression and continue to amplify their voice through debates, colloquia, interviews and televised performances and in streaming.

«We are very sad that pride! It cannot be carried out as we know it because it is a massive city event, but one of the main demands of the group is health, we have spent many years fighting and raising awareness of another epidemic that stigmatized us a lot: HIV. We consider that for consistency, the best option is to cancel this edition and convert it into a live edition through a format that we have had to get used to a lot lately." it states Ferran Poca, Chairman of the Organizing Committee of Pride! Barcelona.

In any case, the organization does not rule out alternative options in case at any time it is possible to conduct some kind of celebration in person during the last quarter of the year.