The cancellation of Canamunt and Canavall by Orgull Llonguet, that bar Flexas is not organizing its traditional festival this year, and the controversy between the City Council and Ben Amics over the LGTBI Pride festival seem to mark a specific pattern. The involved collectives denounce a lack of support and generalized interest from the City Council. Is it just a coincidence or is the municipal programming displacing the associative fabric that for decades has given life to Palma's popular festivals?

Toc de Campana Santa Margalida has taken advantage of Pride Month to advocate for the visibility of the LGTBIQ+ community on social networks from the municipality. The communication space has published several videos with messages focused on the need to name identities, defend bisexuality, and remember that coming out of the closet should not be a justification, but a way to be and love freely.

MÉS per Mallorca has denounced this Saturday, coinciding with International LGTBI Pride Day, what it considers a "worrying and sustained setback" in public policies for the defense of the collective's rights in the Balearic Islands. The eco-sovereignist party has unfurled LGTBI flags on the facades of the Palma City Council, the Consell de Mallorca, and the Balearic Parliament as a symbolic act of protest against the management of the People's Party governments with the support of Vox.

The Ben Amics association has announced that it will file a judicial and administrative complaint against the Palma City Council for alleged irregularities that, according to the entity, surround the organization of the LGTBIQ+ Pride festival, scheduled for next June 27 in Plaça Major.

The Ombudsman has opened an investigation into the Palma City Council following a complaint filed by Ben Amics, which accuses the Consistory of violating fundamental rights due to the repeated difficulties that, according to the entity, it has placed in organizing the Pride events.

The human "pocatraça" has no limits and the Palma City Council is a good example of this. It is enough to listen to a plenary session to confirm that the municipal government does not like groups that are on the margins of what it considers a decent society very much. Cort has not shown much esteem for immigrants, shack dwellers, caravanners, or street artists – at this point, it is worth making a digression: if it is not very, very, very expensive, for the City Council it is not art.

The traditional Flexas festival will not be held this year in Parc de la Mar. After being declared a festival of municipal interest last year, the Palma City Council has withdrawn its support for the organization of the event. The decision comes amid controversy over the LGTBIQ+ Pride celebration and represents a new blow to two of the main spaces linked to the visibility and celebration of queer culture.

Ben Amics has confirmed this Saturday the definitive cancellation of the LGTBI Pride festival in Palma. It will be the first time in more than twenty years that the entity will not organize this celebration. The association attributes the decision to the lack of agreements with the Palma City Council and accuses the municipal government of not assuming "real" commitments with diversity policies.

The Manacor City Council has formally conveyed to the Ben Amics association its willingness to host the Pride celebration in the municipality, after learning of the cancellation of the festival planned in Palma. The council has followed this situation with concern and believes that, at a time like the present, “drawing back is not an option”. 

The Palma City Council has indicated that next week it will begin processing the LGTBI Pride festival file with sufficient time to complete the process within the established deadlines.

The Ben Amics association has warned that the celebration of Pride 2026 in Palma is in danger due to the City Council's lack of response to the request for public space occupation for the demonstration and party planned for June 28.

Journalist Xisco Nadal was in charge of giving the opening speech for International LGBTQ+ Pride Day in Lloret de Mar, during the town's first Pride celebration. Nadal gave a moving and vindictive speech, informed by his personal experience, and given its success and popular demand, the town council has shared the statement. on the website. "I'm very excited to be here today because, although it's not my town, it feels a little like my own because it's the town of my clothes," he said at the beginning.