“Happy Pride Day, see you on the streets on Saturday the 28th”. The phrase is from the president of the Cabildo of Tenerife, Rosa Dávila, who calls on people to participate in the march that day starting at 6:00 pm from Weyler Square. “Organised by the LGTBIQA+ collectives themselves,” emphasises Dávila, who offers two reasons to walk through the main streets of Tenerife’s capital: celebrate and claim rights.
Pride of Pride
The Cabildo joins the commemoration with the clear message of continuing to advance in rights, visibility, and real equality. The insular Corporation invites the public to actively participate in this day not only as a celebration of diversity but also as an act of memory, advocacy, and future.
Rosa Dávila highlights the importance of not forgetting the origin of this date and emphasizes: “Today we can live with more freedom thanks to those who fought in more difficult times. Pride is an act of justice, a way of saying that love is not censored and that identity is not negotiable”.
Discrimination
The Cabildo reminds that although great strides have been made, discrimination still persists, especially towards young people and trans individuals.
Therefore, there is a pressing need to continue working from institutions to create safe spaces, inclusive policies, and positive references for new generations. “This Saturday, we go out on the streets for those who still cannot. It is also a promise that we will continue to fight so that no one ever has to hide again,” says the president of the Cabildo.
Commitment
The insular Corporation reiterates its commitment to defending human rights and the freedom to be, live, and love without fear.
Dávila concludes that “Pride is not just a date on the calendar, it’s a collective opportunity to reaffirm fundamental values such as respect, coexistence, and dignity, so that we continue to meet on the streets, in the struggle and in love”.
Show Your Shield!
President Dávila wears on her shirt the shield of the 2025 Pride Day campaign, under the slogan ‘Despite the hate, pride advances. Show your shield!’, as a sign of support for diversity and the institution’s commitment to the rights of the LGTBIQA+ community.
Rosa Dávila wearing the campaign pin on the lapel / El Día
Activities
The activities planned by the Cabildo of Tenerife include an awareness campaign in the municipalities, the travelling exhibition ‘Yesterday and Today. Trans Memory of Canaries’, the display of a banner on the façade of the Cabildo, a campaign on the Diversity social networks, and the Festivalullo, a concert where Exhuberancia Carey, Lady Blue, Kharma, and Agoney and Álex Mercurio will perform.
“Against Fascism”
LGBTIQA+ groups call to fill the streets of Santa Cruz de Tenerife in defence of their rights “against resurging fascism”. Various associations call on the public, “belonging to the community or not”, to join the demonstration on 28th June, starting from Weyler Square at 6.00 pm.
Seven Voices
The associations Diversas, Libertrans, Transwomen, Transboys, Aperttura, Fundación Pedro Zerolo, and Asociación LGBTIQ+ Tacoronte Comarca de Acentejo come together once again to call for the island-wide Pride demonstration that will start in Weyler and continue along Méndez Núñez Street, Santa Cruz Ramblas, and Francisco La Roche Avenue until it ends at Cabildo Square.
Then, demonstrators will be called to go to La Candelaria Square for the reading of the manifesto prepared by the collectives on the stage set up in this enclave of the Tenerife capital.
Manifestation for Pride last year in El Médano / Arturo Jiménez
Two Stops
The groups highlight that they have planned two symbolic stops along the route.
The first, in García Sanabria Park, to commemorate the place where the first Pride march started in 1978. The second, at the Fallen Angel Monument (to Franco) as a still-present vestige of fascism “against which we can only resist with pride”, the groups stress in a statement.
Visibility
The convening associations indicate that this action aims to “make the Island’s LGBTIQA+ Pride visible”.
Because “Tenerife remembers and will not allow a step back against the fascism that resurges with hate speeches that threaten the rights of the most vulnerable people, which is why we intend to fill the streets of the capital to show that many of us resist and insist on this collective struggle”, the groups assert.
“Historic and Massive”
They also point out that “an invitation has been extended to hundreds of social, feminist, ecological, activist groups, unions, and insular political parties, so that the demonstration is massive and floods the streets of Santa Cruz with the demand for diversity that must be protected as a right for all”.
The associations predict that it will be a “historic and massive” demonstration, returning to the city of Santa Cruz de Tenerife after many years.
Call to Action
Thus, the groups call on the public to participate “massively” in the demonstration, “whether they belong to the community or not, because the resurgent fascism threatens us all, and in response, we must insist and resist with pride”, the associations conclude.
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