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Hundreds of people, around 2,000 according to the Government Delegation, have participated this Saturday in Pamplona in a demonstration, convened by the E28J platform on the occasion of LGTBI+ Pride Daywhich has defended the rights of the LGTBI+ collective before the “rise of fascism and reactionary movements” that deny the “rights and advances achieved in recent decades.” The mobilization has also shown its support for the “genocide” in Palestine.

The demonstration has begun at 7:20 p.m. preceded by a banner with the motto ‘transbollomarikak borrokan. Not in our name. Antiphaxist pride ‘. Throughout the route, slogans have been chanted such as ‘Pride will be the tomb of fascism’, ‘Gora Borroka Transbollomarika’ or ‘Patriarchy and Capital, Criminal Alliance’. After touring the streets of the city, the march has ended in the Plaza del Castillo.

There, a manifesto has been read in which the E28J platform has claimed resistance “from transfminism before the rise of fascism and reactionary movements that seek to deny rights and advances achieved in recent decades.” In the same way, he has rejected a “trans exclusion” feminism and has claimed “the transfminist struggle” capable of “generating plural and solid alliances.” “We do not tolerate any speech against gender self -determination,” they said.

In addition, they have criticized the “Pinkwashing” that have defined as “capitalist and colonial violence” that “has instrumentalized our struggle making it a product of lucrative consumption and commercializing our identities.” And have defended “the self -determination of the body, life and territory.”

In statements to the media before the beginning of the demonstration, Paco Andreu, From the E28J platform, he recalled that pride commemorates the revolts of Stonewall in New York in 1969, in which “the dissident, racialized, trans population, went out to the street fed up with police repression.” In this sense, he affirmed that it is “the same repression that we continue to have today with the heteronorm, the heteropatriarchy and machismo.”

In the same way, he has shown his concern about the “rise of fascism, both local and global, with positions that go against the collective.” In this sense, he has hoped that “debate” will be generated and that “people consider the way to which we are on a social level.” “We can find many problems, which we are already seeing in Budapest, but also in the United States with Trump, in Argentina with Milei”, where “human rights are being violated” against the LGTBI+collective, he has warned.

For its part, Belén Irureta, Also from E28J, he stressed that “they have fought behind us rights that we want to maintain” and has called to “continue fighting on the street to continue maintaining what we have and, hopefully, go a little better.”