The freedom to be
The freedom to be

Shimar Guyo

HR professional

“Barcelona embraced my transition and my rebirth. Here, I’m not just accepted—I’m home.” 

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Katy Pallàs

Teacher

“LGTBI children and teenagers deserve pride, not silence and stigma.” 

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Maria Giralt

Activist and entrepreneur

“Being visible is an act of resistance. Now more than ever, not a single step backwards!” 

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Sebastián Bergero and Bruno Cassettai

Graphic designer and Doctor

“We don’t suffer because of who we are, we suffer because of how they judge us.”

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Sophia Vargas

Graphic designer

“My identity doesn’t fit under a single label or struggle.”

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The freedom to be

Barcelona is a diverse, welcoming city that is striving every day to become a safe, committed, active place in the fight against LGBTI-phobia. Once again this year, the city is at the forefront in the defence of rights relating to diversity and gender and of its citizens’ freedoms as it commemorates International LGBTI Pride Day.

With the slogan ‘The Freedom to Be’, this year features a broad and diverse programme of activities organised by the Barcelona LGBTI Centre through the civic management agreement with the Platform of LGBTI Entities of Catalonia.

Barcelona is a leading city in the fight for the rights of LGBTI people, and once again, it will be filled with pride and championing citizens’ right and freedom to be.

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Pride of neighborhoods

The whole city gets involved in the commemoration of Pride. Local facilities across all of Barcelona’s neighbourhoods and districts organise activities for the event. Libraries, civic centres, young people’s spaces, neighbourhood centres… This wide range of offerings highlights the diversity of perspectives and realities of the various LGBTI groups. 

It is a local, intergenerational, transfeminist and intersectional programme that intensifies during this period, but is actually going on all year round thanks to collaboration with the different agents that work all over the city to champion LGBTI rights.

Because Barcelona loves and is proud of its diversity, because we cannot take even a single step backwards when it comes to rights, and because everyone who lives in our city must be able to express and experience their identity freely and safely.

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Pride of museums

The city’s Pride commemorations also involve several of its museums, which will once again reinterpret their spaces and collections through an LGBTI lens. 

Museums are not only places for preserving objects from the past. They are also spaces where stories about our history, culture and identity are built and reproduced. Incorporating an LGBTI perspective is more than an act of historical justice: it is a way of enriching and diversifying narratives shown to city residents. An LGBTI perspective in museums repairs historical omissions while opening doors to new ways of thinking, feeling and understanding the world we live in.

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Other proposals in the city

The city will also host activities put on by its different groups, entities, organisations and associations. 

The two most notable are ‘PRIDE’ and ‘Critical Pride’. But there are many other entities work that toward the promotion and defence of LGBTI rights.

You can explore all the initiatives that are not part of the municipal programme but share the same goal: to make Barcelona a leading city for coexistence, respect and the freedom to be.

Municipal Services

Barcelona has different municipal facilities of reference in the LGTBI theme. Information, guidance and direct attention services, which work for the defense, protection, reflection and visibility of sexual and gender diversity and for the guarantee of human rights in the city.

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