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Why am I going to the LGBT Pride March in Lisbon?
I’m going to the March because I have to go to the March, because there are a lot of people
who need to go to the March, to the March in Lisbon, in Oporto, in Coimbra. That is the moment we take the streets
with joy and diversity. The LGBT movement is made of many people, associations, collectives;
groups with different origins, different backgrounds, histories, with different purposes and the Lisbon March
is the moment in which in this city all these movements come together in its diversity. It’s a must!
I will be at the March against discrimination, against prejudice, against bullying,
for a more inclusive, more informed education, one that includes the issues of *** orientation
and gender identity and that educates for diversity.
I’m straight and I’m going to the March because I believe in equality.
I’m going to the LGBT Pride March to celebrate the rights that I have already seen recognized
and to claim the ones that still haven’t.
As a geographer, I think I greatly value public space and the importance of public space: the street, the square,
as a space of social and political conquest. Therefore, for me, any demonstration, as long as I agree with it,
is a moment of strong involvement, and that is what the March is to me. It’s a political demonstration;
it’s a moment of strong fight for LGBT rights. In that sense, I’m going to the March, firstly because I fight and I believe
the fight needs to happen on the street. I’m going to the March because I know many people, for various reasons,
cannot be there, because they’re working, because they’re studying, because they are having an exam.
It has happened to me, not being able to go to a March because I was at an exam, not in Lisbon, but in Oporto.
Because they don’t believe, because they think they don’t believe, because they’re afraid of being seen,
because they have all these fears. Therefore, to go to the March is exactly that, it is for us all of us to go,
regardless of our *** orientation, to demonstrate for the need to change and to fight homophobia in Portugal.
I will draw a picture. The same way many LGBT people were out on the streets on march 12, I would like all people
on june 18 to be out on the street, meaning, all those who were out on the street on march 12 fighting against poor living
and working conditions, fighting this complicated financial situation we’re all in, that they all go out too on Pride March day
fighting against homophobia and transphobia, because these fights are all the same, they’re all the same fight.