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    <title><![CDATA[Ara Balears in English - Pride 2026]]></title>
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      <title><![CDATA[Ben Amics claims from Cort more planning and a stable model to recover a "participatory and dignified" Pride in 2027]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.arabalears.cat/society/ben-amics-claims-from-cort-more-planning-and-stable-model-to-recover-participative-and-dignified-pride-in-2027_1_5812150.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/ce3222c0-c283-4662-96d1-7e9e884e35ba_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>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.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[ARA Balears]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 29 Jul 2026 15:19:07 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[Meeting of Ben Amics with the mayor of Palma]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[The entity requests stable administrative deadlines, to recover the eliminated programming and to reinforce municipal LGTBIQ+ policies after qualifying as a "failure" the model promoted this year by the Palma City Council]]></subtitle>
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      <title><![CDATA[Marta Sánchez heads the tenth Proudly Inca]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.arabalears.cat/culture/marta-sanchez-will-lead-the-tenth-proudly-inca_1_5795858.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/7ddffaaa-15e0-4d70-a160-c3fa91529814_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>Inca celebrates its tenth anniversary of Orgullosament Inca from July 15 to 18 with a special program headlined by Marta Sánchez. The festival, consolidated as one of the benchmark events for LGTBIQA+ Pride in Mallorca, offers four days of exhibitions, cinema, literature, family activities, shows, and concerts.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[ARA Balears]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 11 Jul 2026 10:22:25 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[Marta Sánchez]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[The festival is celebrated from July 15 to 18 with exhibitions, cinema, literature, family activities, the Pride parade and a big final concert]]></subtitle>
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      <title><![CDATA[Palma, proud?]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.arabalears.cat/opinion/palma-proud_129_5786458.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p>Surprisingly or not, Pride, also known as LGBTI+ Liberation Day, has not been the most discussed celebration in recent years in Palma or the Balearic Islands in general. It seems that the commemoration of the Stonewall riots (the revolt initiated by a group of racialized trans women against police abuses and raids at the bar of the same name) and the fight for sexual and gender liberation that stems from it is a rather accepted date in our society, or at least one that does not bother. Or does it?Palma, for example, had for decades a more or less capital Pride, agreed with entities in this field, and globalized Ibiza has also hosted numerous similar events. In recent years, in addition, Orgullosament Inca has been added, with the involvement of the all-terrain artist Pep Noguera, and Orgull de Felanitx, captained by the tireless Sor Estiércol (artistic name of the multidisciplinary Albert Iglesias), and this will be the second year that Menorca has its own Pride celebration: it will be in Migjorn Gran, thanks to the push of the actor Lluís Febrer.However, it seems that the current governing team of Cort, made up of councilors from the PP and Vox, does not quite like the idea of letting a festival that arises from the people be participated in by the people. Thus, if a few weeks ago it became public that the mythical summer festival of bar Flexas in Parc de la Mar, an unofficial prologue to Pride, would not be held due to the "unviable" conditions imposed by the City Council, it was later known that the Consistory was also not willing to reach an agreement with Ben Amics, the reference entity in the defense of the rights of LGBTI+ people, for the organization of Pride events, and has ended up offering an absolutely innocuous version marked by commercialization.This, in itself, should already be very serious news, considering the rise in LGBTI-phobic aggressions we are suffering (the beating of a married couple in Maioris, in June 2025, the homophobic attack on a teacher from IES Baltasar Porcel in Andratx, last March, the aggressions against a stallholder in the Pere Garau market in April…), but now problems are being added that could have to do with the law: Ben Amics has already announced that it will report the Palma City Council for a "possible influence peddling" in the organization of this year's Pride tourist event, as they have found "possible irregularities" in the contracting process, such as "conflict of interest" and "intervention in administrative contracting".Turning its back on a not insignificant part of its population, the Palma City Council validates the hate speech that Vox has been spreading for too many years. Pride is a civic, revendicative festival, about love and everything that transcends love: identity, health, pleasure, self-determination… With this way of doing things and these traveling companions, one would say that Mayor Martínez is doing more work for Empegueïment than for anything else.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sebastià Portell]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 02 Jul 2026 05:31:29 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Pride wins the arm wrestling at the Palma City Council]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.arabalears.cat/society/pride-wins-out-at-palma-city-council_1_5783120.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/069c1148-ec4a-4f71-80a1-e529ba6f635f_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>"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.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Maria Llull]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 28 Jun 2026 19:50:14 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[The demonstration called by Ben Amics, with more than 2,000 attendees, has reached Cort Square.]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[Two protests gather almost 3,000 people in the streets of Palma]]></subtitle>
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      <title><![CDATA[Pride arrives in Palma with two demonstrations and conflict with Cort in the background]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.arabalears.cat/society/pride-arrives-in-palma-with-two-demonstrations-and-the-conflict-with-cort-in-the-background_1_5782707.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/f28cd295-3397-4b24-a458-ad0954998ec4_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>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.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[ARA Balears]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 28 Jun 2026 09:07:36 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[Manifestation for Pride in Palma]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[Critical Pride Mallorca and Ben Amics will leave this Sunday from Plaça d'Espanya on a day marked by the break between the LGTBI entity and the City Council]]></subtitle>
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      <title><![CDATA[Ben Amics brings out the Pride of Palma and awards CEIP Sant Jordi in Manacor]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.arabalears.cat/society/ben-amics-takes-out-palma-s-pride-and-rewards-ceip-sant-jordi-in-manacor_1_5782694.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/f9a9f0ed-23ad-486e-8e32-6001717e406b_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>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.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[ARA Balears]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 28 Jun 2026 08:50:21 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[LGBTI Flag]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[The entity recognizes the center's work in sexual and gender education and dedicates the Pink Devil to denouncing LGTBI-phobic aggressions]]></subtitle>
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      <title><![CDATA[Ben Amics judicializes the Pride conflict and denounces the Palma City Council]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.arabalears.cat/misc/the-left-in-palma-calls-for-massive-demonstration-for-pride-against-the-pp-s-offensive_1_5780833.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/ffb6b7af-1c62-4c75-bf58-e754a1cf6a5b_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>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.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[ARA Balears]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 26 Jun 2026 11:16:17 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[The spokesperson for Ben Amics in court with the complaint in his hands.]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[The entity presents a criminal complaint for the alleged irregularities in the contracting of the LGTBIQ+ festival revelry and another against councilor Lourdes Roca for alleged coercion and intimidation]]></subtitle>
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      <title><![CDATA[The organizer of the Pride party in Cort ridicules the LGTBI+ movement in his columns]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.arabalears.cat/society/the-organizer-of-the-pride-party-in-cort-ridicules-the-lgtbi-movement-in-his-columns_1_5779027.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/500d68fb-94b0-4e5d-8a95-33fd4a7ee43f_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>"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.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Maria Llull]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 24 Jun 2026 15:42:06 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[The Palma City Council has not yet made public the award of Saturday's event, in charge of AgenciaCom]]></subtitle>
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      <title><![CDATA[Ben Amics will report Cort for alleged irregular awards for the Palma Pride festival]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.arabalears.cat/society/ben-amics-accuses-cort-of-opacity-and-improvisation-in-the-management-of-pride-2026_1_5776596.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/639e2f0d-0953-4f6c-8db0-ca6cb5f9b8e4_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>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.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Aina Vidal]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 22 Jun 2026 06:45:10 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[The coordinator of the entity, Jan Gómez]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[The entity sees indications of influence peddling and fraudulent contracting in the organization of the party and will file a complaint before the courts and an administrative appeal]]></subtitle>
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      <title><![CDATA[Court asks Ben Amics to continue collaboration to celebrate the LGTBI+ Pride festival]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.arabalears.cat/society/court-asks-ben-amics-to-continue-collaboration-to-celebrate-the-lgtbi-pride-festival_1_5728063.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/4da6e671-8d60-490a-a15b-2b20df6e854c_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>The Palma City Council has reiterated its commitment to the celebration of the LGTBI+ Pride program in the city and its willingness for the festival to take place in collaboration with the entity Ben Amics, as it considers that "there is sufficient room for its processing". In a statement, the council assured that at no time has the cancellation of the event been considered and that it has worked from the beginning with the aim of developing all the programmed activities.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[ARA Balears]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 05 May 2026 16:09:23 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[A group of people with banners during an LGTBI Pride demonstration.]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[The City Council assures that there is administrative margin to process all activities and hopes that Ben Amics will confirm if it will continue as a collaborating entity in the verbena]]></subtitle>
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