Orgull Barcelona 2025: celebrating the freedom to be

An extensive local, intergenerational, transfeminist and intersectional programme is in store, demonstrating the city’s diverse and welcoming character, committed and active against LGBTI-phobia. Highlights include activities such as the workshop “Sexual, affective and gender diversity” at the Bblioteca Nou Barris on 10 June; the screening of short films in Regenera’t at the Pati Llimona, in Ciuta Vella, on 13 June; the Vermutada LGTBIQ+ on 25 June at the BAU Barcelona Arts and Design University in Sant Martí; the show La vedette antifeixista at the Centre Cívic Tomasa Cuevas – Les Corts on 26 June, and the fifth Orgull de la Trini at the Llosa del Metro Trinitat Vella on 12 July.

Museums will also be joining in with specific activities such as guided tours and themed tours reinterpreting their spaces and collections from an LGBTI perspective. Examples include the route  “LGTBIQA+: a window on diversity through the history of erotic art” at the Museu de l’Eròtica de Barcelona, and the guided tour “Insubmissive visions. Thinking sexual diversity and desire through art” at the del Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya.

You can find all the activities on the campaign website.

The freedom to be

This year’s campaign moves to the neighbourhoods and the people that live there, anonymous protagonists that show us their vision of the city as LGBTI people.

Katy Pallàs is a secondary school teacher and activist for the rights of LGBTI people and families. She lives in the Sants neighbourhood with her wife, who she has shared her life with for 21 years, and together they are mothers of a son. “LGBTI children and teenagers deserve pride, never silence or stigmas”.

Shimar Guyo was born in the Philippines and has lived between the neighbourhoods of L’Eixample and Sagrada Família for sixteen years. She works as a human resources professional in the city, where she adopted her identity as a trans woman and underwent her gender transition process. “Barcelona embraced my transition and rebirth. Here I’m accepted: I’m at home”.

Bruno Cassetta is a doctor specialising in advance aesthetic medicine and lives in the Baix Guinardó neighbourhood with his partner, Sebastián Bergero, who he has shared his life with for 14 years. Sebastián is a graphic designer specialising in UX, and like Bruno, he went to the University of Buenos Aires. They got married in Barcelona, the city they chose for their life project. “We don’t suffer for who we are, we suffer about how they judge us”.

Maria Giralt lives in the Gràcia district. The fight for LGBTI rights is in Maria’s DNA. She was one of the people who attended the first LGBTI Pride demonstration in Spain in 1977, held in Barcelona. In an international context where rights and individual freedoms are being rolled back, Maria speaks out and chooses to be visible as an act of struggle and resistance. “Being visible is an act of resistance. Now more than ever, not a single step backwards!”

Sophia Vargas was born in Colombia and has been living in Sant Gervasi for the past few years. She is a graphic designer, studying for a Master in Education and is a full-time activist. Sophia calls for a truly inclusive society that understands that there is not just one way of being, living or resisting. “My identity doesn’t fit under a single label or struggle”.

In Barcelona we stand up for gender diversity and rights, which is why this year we are again celebrating the right to be.

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