Ben Amics accuses a psychologist at the Gender Identity Clinic (CDIG) of Son Espases of transphobia after collecting testimonies from 30 people who claim to have received discriminatory treatment between 2020 and 2026. According to the association, the professional questioned their gender identity, hindered access to hormonal treatments, and withheld information about the procedures to begin the transition.

The LGTBI rights association Ben Amics has reported a new case of violation of the rights of trans people within the public health system of the Balearic Islands. The entity asserts that in two continuous care centers (PAC) in Palma, they refused to process a new health card with the chosen name of a trans person because they did not present the ID with the registered name change.

The LGBTI rights organization Ben Amics demanded this Thursday the closure of the Gender Identity Clinic at Son Espases hospital for carrying out, as it denounces, "systematic transphobic practices" and having become "the main obstacle to starting the healthcare transition".

Ben Amics has denounced that the Equality area of the Palma City Council remains "temporarily unavailable" for the second consecutive school year, a situation that the entity attributes to a "lack of political will" of the PP municipal government. This has caused the educational workshops on affective, sexual and gender diversity that the entity had been teaching for more than 18 months to be paralyzed.

The immense shade of a mulberry tree protects Jan Gómez from a late June sun that tastes like August. He gets up from his chair, takes off his straw hat with a green and white ribbon –"the first one I found at the bazaar," he says–, stretches his T-shirt that says Carpe Diem, and grabs a stick that had belonged to his grandfather. To the left of the mulberry tree, the onions in the vegetable garden have their stems bent so they can finish fattening up, the tomatoes peek out from between the reeds, and the sunflowers are already bowing their heads, loaded with seeds. To the right, the corral. About twenty goats come out in a rush and cross the sown field as soon as Jan opens the bolt. They search with their muzzles for the grain that remained scattered on the dry earth after the harvest.

The LGTBIQ+ entity Ben Amics has requested from the Palma City Council "dignified" administrative deadlines that allow for planning the 2027 Pride festival and all related activities months in advance. Likewise, it has asked the City Council to promote "clear, stable, and sufficiently resourced" municipal LGTBIQ+ policies.

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?

The mayor of Palma, Jaime Martínez, has defended the municipal management of the LGTBIQ+ Pride events and has assured that the contracting has been carried out in a “escrupolosa” manner, after Ben Amics filed a complaint for possible irregularities in the awarding procedure and criticized the organization model of the festivities. Martínez has placed this weekend's celebrations within normality and has rejected the collective's criticism. “It is very good for Ben Amics to report anything they consider has been done wrong, and I am convinced that the legal services, the technicians, and the political leaders have done it scrupulously, as always,” he stated.

"Pride without LGTBI+ people is not Pride". This is how the technical coordinator of Ben Amics, Jan Gómez, has summarized the feelings of the collective at Sunday's demonstration, after the Palma City Council opted to commercialize the date and hold a party without a reivindicative character. Cort's event on Saturday did not bring together more than 150 people in a Plaça Major that was left empty, while the two protests on Sunday – called by Ben Amics and the platform Orgull Crític Mallorca – gathered almost 3,000 people in the streets of Palma.

Palma will experience an LGTBIQ+ Pride this Sunday marked by fragmentation and open conflict between Ben Amics and the City Council. Two demonstrations will depart from Plaça d'Espanya a few minutes apart and will tour the city center on a day that comes after the breakdown of historic collaboration to organize the Pride celebration.

Ben Amics has celebrated this year in Manacor the delivery of the Siurell and Dimoni Rosa awards, one of the events linked to Pride in the Balearic Islands. The event served to recognize the work of CEIP Sant Jordi, from Palma, in sexual and gender education, and to denounce LGTBI-phobic aggressions, which have received this edition's Dimoni Rosa.

The conflict over the organization of Palma Pride took a step further this Friday and has now reached the courts. Ben Amics has filed a criminal complaint against Palma City Council for alleged irregularities in the hiring of the company responsible for organizing the Pride celebration, and another complaint against the second deputy mayor and councilor for Social Services, Lourdes Roca, whom they accuse of "intimidation and coercion" following statements she made after the entity publicly questioned the procedure.

"Today I want to talk to you about pride. And not about that pride that LGTBI plus and more plus collectives claim to be able to live in freedom without anyone caring about their sex life". This is one of the fragments from the column that Antoni Martorell published on June 20, when his company AgenciaCom had already submitted a bid to the Palma City Council to organize the LGTBIQ+ Pride party.

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 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 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 will decide in assembly whether to accept the proposal from the Palma City Council on the organization of LGTBI Pride events, in a context marked by the breakdown of the co-organization of the festival, disagreements over deadlines, and a lack of consensus on the planning of the festive and advocacy activities. The collective announced its decision after months of tension with the city council, which culminated in the cancellation of the festival by the entity and the opening of a new negotiation scenario with Cort, which maintains that the events are still being processed and that no planned activity has been suppressed.

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”.