The celebration and claim of the LGTBIQ+ Pride 2026 will be mostly moved to the Part Forana after disagreements between Ben Amics and the Palma City Council, which have led the association to cancel the musical celebration it had been organizing for years. However, the main demonstration will be held on Sunday, June 28 at 7:00 PM in Plaça d’Espanya in Palma. On the other hand, one of the most anticipated events, the delivery of the Siurell and Dimoni Rosa awards, will take place on Saturday the 27th in Manacor, a municipality that has offered to host activities after the controversy in Palma and the breakdown between Ben Amics and the City Council.

The Parliament plenary session voted dividedly this Tuesday on a text condemning LGTBiphobia in light of recent episodes of homophobic attacks that have occurred in recent months in the Balearic Islands. The left voted in favor of the document, and the PP supported most of the initiative, but rejected taking a stance against the President of the Chamber, Gabriel Le Senne, for having made a video in front of a Porto Cristo institute criticizing a mural in which two women were kissing. For its part, Vox voted against it.

The Parliament's plenary session on Tuesday voted dividedly on a text condemning LGTBiphobia in response to recent episodes of homophobic attacks that have taken place in recent months in the Balearic Islands. The left voted in favor of the text, and the PP supported most of the initiative, but rejected taking a stance against the President of the Chamber, Gabriel Le Senne, for having made a video in front of a high school in Porto Cristo criticizing a mural in which two women were kissing. For its part, Vox voted against.

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 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.

MÉS per Palma has denounced this Friday the serious degradation of diversity and equality public policies promoted by the PP municipal government after the association Ben Amics announced the cancellation of the LGTBI+ Pride party in Palma due to the City Council's lack of planning and coordination. The party considers this situation to be the direct consequence of "the political apathy of Mayor Jaime Martínez and the systematic dismantling" of LGTBI+ policies promoted by the PP since the beginning of the legislature.

MÁS por Palma has shown its deep concern about the possibility that Palma will be left without the celebration of Pride 2026, as denounced by Ben Amics this Friday, and has demanded accountability from the mayor of Palma. The party has expressed its support for Ben Amics in light of the possibility that Pride 2026 cannot be celebrated in Palma due to the Palma City Council's lack of response to the requests processed by the entity.

The organizers of OUT! The Balearic Islands' LGBT+ Film Festival have announced their decision to "take an indefinite break" after eight editions marked by "constant uncertainty" due to "the difficulty of securing funding year after year, the lack of stability, and accumulated exhaustion." In a statement released this Wednesday, the organizers assured that this "is not a bitter farewell or a complaint," but rather an "honest and conscious pause." "We have screened hundreds of feature films, documentaries, and short films from around the world, giving visibility to stories about identity, love, resistance, and freedom," they stated. The organizers also highlighted the parallel activities organized to promote reflection, such as roundtables, meetings with filmmakers, presentations, debates, and storytelling sessions for children.

The Flexas festival began as a Canamunt festival, a neighborhood festival to gather and have a good time. Families would come with their children on their shoulders, and everyone would applaud the chupinazo (fireworks) or the dancing of the drag queens. It grew organically due to public acceptance. The organizers, with Pepa Charro (The Alcorcón Earthquake) at the front, financed this growth out of their own pockets. Friends came to perform for a paella, accommodation, and the friendship with Charro, who puts his agenda at the service of Palma. public and raise the manure when someone is preparing the summer party. I would say that Cort is more than profitable. culture." He legitimizes, of course, those blessed by Christ, the oldest and those that are part of the heritage, always according to his point of view. But the crux The point is that they consider it "a mistake for the City Council to support a festival with an LGBTQ ideology" that requires "analyzing" its "influence on minors." They also criticize the attendees for drinking and taking drugs. They'll do it the same way, I say, as the parents and good men I've seen snorting lines as big as my index finger at weddings, baptisms, and communions. Sacramental cocaine.

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.