The context of Pride Barcelona in the second half of July
This celebration, known internationally as the festival of pink capitalism, pinkwashing and gentrification, is organized by the LGTBI Chamber of Commerce and is part of the Europride push.
The fight for LGBTI rights and historical events
It is essential to remember the 1977 Pride demonstration, called by several groups and feminists, which led to demands to repeal the Law on Dangerousness and Social Rehabilitation and to demand amnesty for LGBTI people.
The transformation of the movement and the emergence of Pride Barcelona
It is important to recognize the long history of political collectives and lesbian, gay, trans and feminist groups that have marked the struggle for the right to sexual and gender liberation.
Pride Barcelona and the demobilization of the LGBTI movement
The institutionalization of the LGBTI movement has caused grassroots and street demobilization, leaving the collective’s needs in the hands of pink capitalism companies.
Pink capitalism and the construction of a new narrative
Through Pride Barcelona, pink capitalism tries to erase and make invisible the political groups that have fought for more than 40 years, distorting the very history of the struggle for sexual and gender liberation.
The need to recover the unitary organization of Pride
It is essential to rebuild unitary spaces and recover the unity of the 28J demonstration to confront pink capitalism with its own agenda.