NOTICE FROM PRIDE! BCN

PRIDE! Barcelona suspends the public activities of this year and bets for a “virtual” and televised version.

• Pride! Barcelona, with more than 400.000 assistants in the past edition, was going to celebrate the days 25, 26 and 27 of June.
• A “virtual” edition of PRIDE! BCN will take place on digital platforms and on local television to keep giving voice and visibility to the collective on the scheduled days.

The annual event of Pride! Barcelona makes official his suspension caused by COVID and the ban of holding massive events on public spaces until new order. Barcelona LGTBI Pride has positioned herself as the second most massive celebration in town, with more than 400.000 atenddees in the 2019 edition. The event, which combines demands and celebration, was going to celebrate the days 25, 26 and 27 of June in different spaces.

Among the principal acts of the events where the demonstration and the big celebration with concerts, activities and associations display at the Av. Maria Cristina. The program was to be completed with other cultural proposals, sportive and familiar that, as has happened in many cases, will have to wait.

Objective: Keep the visibility in a virtual way
All in all, one of the principal objectives from Pride! Barcelona is offer a big space for social entities to expose the collective demand. That’s why, the Pride! Barcelona organization and its group of 32 social entities will carry out a “virtual Pride” that will be broadcast on social platforms and television.

The organizing comite has reach out an agreement with local TV Betevé for the week of 27 on June to have some hours of special programming on the occasion of Pride! Bcn.

The idea is that the collective keep having a expression platform and keeds amplify its voice thought debates, colloquia, interviews and televised performances and on streaming.

Will be a moment to make know the collective reality to the new normality post Covid, to celebrate the rights achieved and claim for the ones that still remain to be achieved.

In the next weeks, depending on how the epidemic situation evolves, the program of the virtual activities will be presented and depending on how the epidemia progress and what the health authorities allow, Pride! BCN will organize a celebration in the last trimester of the year.