Tenerife’s LGBTIQA+ groups have organised a new edition of the island Pride march this Saturday, 29th June, under the theme “Against hate, pride and community”. The event will start at 6:00 PM from Plaza Weyler, in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, and will end at Plaza del Cabildo, where the manifesto will be read on the ‘Festivalullo’ stage.
The route will include calle Méndez Núñez, the Ramblas de Santa Cruz, and Avenida Francisco La Roche. During the march, there will be two significant stops: one at Parque García Sanabria, a symbolic site of the first Pride march in 1978, and another in front of the Monument to the Fallen Angel, which organisers describe as a “remnant of fascism to be resisted with pride”.
A collective call to resistance
The organising groups include Diversas, Libertrans, Transwomen, Transboys, Aperttura, Fundación Pedro Zerolo, and the LGBTIQ+ Association Tacoronte Comarca de Acentejo. They emphasise that the main goal of the march is to “highlight the memory of Pride in Tenerife and reject hate speech that affects the most vulnerable in the community”.
The organisation has called upon social, feminist, ecological groups, unions, political parties, and the general public to make the march a “massive” and “advocative” event.
March also in Gran Canaria
In parallel, another march with the same theme will take place in Gran Canaria at 7:00 PM, starting from the Building of the Taxi Drivers on Avenida José Mesa y López and ending at Parque Santa Catalina. This mobilisation is organised by Gamá and Chrysallis Canarias.
