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he LGTBI+ Pride celebrations were triggered by riots cau by police sweeps of United States nightclubs; the date ch is 28 June of each year, as on the same day in 1969, the pol raid was particularly violent at a joint in New York’s Greenw Village, the Stonewall Inn. The response of the people there the beginning of a long dawn of unrest and clashes between LGTBI+ people and the agents. The historic scope of this ev yet to be calibrated. The sequels began to occur the day afte events of the Stonewall, since the media repercussion was g becoming an empowering milestone of the LGTBI+ field; it made them aware of their dissatisfaction and disagreement the roles that the public authorities and society made them as a marginal and marginalized collective. The year after the Greenwich Village tocsin, on June 28, 1970, a rally was call Christopher Street, from where the first gay pride march of me began, with an end in Central Park. Subsequently, they b to be celebrated throughout the world. With the passage of has occurred what some groups of gays, lesbians, transgend tersex, etc., consider as a commodification and repoliticizati Pride, its official institutionalization; in addition, to be open posed to pink capitalism, gentrification derived from gaycap lism, pinkwashing, cishomonormativity, homonationalism... tical Pride holds alternative events and parades in various ci around the world with an anti-capitalist, transfeminist and a racist vocation. Their nuclear claim is the revival of Stonewa combative spirit, signifying the protest and the agitation.

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L’OFFICIEL POP CULTURE

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nderscoring the turbulent scenarios that curre not known social peace or political balance. lar "harmony", although with many nuances. Th abuses committed by the stablishment and its ex The latter eventually esta- bipartisanship, so that power was blished a negotiated bipar- has been the most economically st neoliberalism in this Republic has tisanship, so that power was always held and exer- ficulties have traditionally been so cised by liberals or conser- However, the latter are on the wa vatives. Therefore, Colom- young people tired of watching h bia has been the most ecoleonine monetary pressures, annih nomically stable South were joined by adults. The Gover American country for a the belief that they would stop th whole century. dimensions that it is now virtually rallel reports of execrable governmental actions decades.

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Colombia Neoliberal genocide?

ently exist in Colombia, we might think that this country, for fifty years, has What is true and real is that the latter has always been maintained in a reguhe first is another story; collective conciliation does not exist as a result of the xecutors, the political forces. The latter eventually established a negotiated always held and exercised by liberals or conservatives. Therefore, Colombia table South American country for a whole century. However, the prevailing begun to shipwreck due to its problems with the public debt. Monetary difolved by fiscal reforms that have borne more or less the desired fruits. ay to failure in the face of massive protests by the Colombian people, led by how, perpetually, it has been the lower classes that have been subjected to hilating, in that everlasting salvage of the national economy. Young people rnment then began a bloody, merciless hunt and capture of the youngest, in he protests by eliminating those who led them. But they have taken on such y impossible for them to become extinct. And, as time goes on, there are paregarding human rights violations, among others, with a coverage of several

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COLOMBIA: Stop Genocide!

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er the long agony and death of Franco in 1975, the fascist dictatorship in Spain r 36 years was "over". As established by Franco’s legislation, he was named sucssor to the tyrant who would be King Juan Carlos I, and the so-called Spanish tion began; this covered from the death of the fascist autocrat to a date when e, really, agrees, but that, at the most, did not go beyond 1982, with the victory of the PSOE in the legislative elections. Throughout this period of transformation, an infinite number of waivers were made by the democratic forces, under the pressure of the factual powers, still dominated by the francoism, and economics; consequently, the fascist dictatorship was falsely closed, thanks, in part, to the famous adage launched by Franco in his last days: "I leave everything tied and well tied".

It was this transition that inadvertently incubated what much later emerged as a social movement of dissidence and rebellion: 15 M, impelled, in turn, by another emerged through social networks: Real Democracy Ya. As the last straw were constituted the high rates of poverty of various kinds, and the leonine cuts carried out by the two parties that have been alternating in power since the advent of democracy in Spain, in the wake of a global financial scam (2008), the scope of which was particularly hard on Spanish territory, among others (the... PIGS [Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain]): banking failure, saved from the public coffers (250 billion euros). This global economic paradigm, consisting of squeezing the middle and lower classes, to make them repay them in lean periods, also formed the trigger in the genesis of their reaction (almost)equal and opposite: the aforementioned 15 de Mayo, in 2011. The storm of positive derivations caused in the imperfect Spanish democracy still continues: readjustment of political with the incorporation of social issues on which an obvious structural violence disappearance of the bipartite system still arises. The 15M was physically elimiby means of police resources, however, its vindications, even more valid than ars ago, remain latent, implying a more than feasible resurgence of the original ment.

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Current conditions have made it possible to confirm the return of the festivals to Spain, according to the circumstances of each autonomous community.

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culturemagazine Director Claudia Butxana Editor Antonio Pozo Editor-in-Chief Sly Nell Photo Director Luz García Photography Antonio Pozo Sly Nell Sandra Narváez Emilia Camps Teresa Poma BONITAgency™ Writers Pilar de Skals Ancor Escrich Esteban Tortajada

Cover photography: Antonio Pozo

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