Xisco Nadal: "The demand for LGBTQI+ rights is about who you sleep with."

PalmJournalist 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.

Nadal also said at the beginning that he didn't know what to wear for the occasion and that, after "searching the internet" and finding many t-shirts with the word 'Love' or the phrase 'Love is love', none of them represented him. "That's why I'm wearing this one that says 'Everything will be gay', which is a wish I've had since I was little, that everything be gay," he said.

"At first, from the LGTBIQ+ movement, we created this narrative of love in which we let ourselves be validated (and we felt validated) by a supreme good: love. As if to say: 'Petitons, you're crazy, you're not weird at all, against nature... but appreciate yourselves'... "I don't want to feel like myself just because I love. Love ends. And I want to be Xisco, whether I love or not. You shouldn't tolerate me for me to be a lesser evil, you should respect me because we are the same as you, even if I think differently, and have a different orientation of desire than you. One.

The journalist also charged against the 'Manolos' of society at a time when he explained that maintaining homosexual relations is currently considered a crime in 64 countries. "Gentlemen, in Yemen, in Mauritania, in the United Arab Emirates, they can kill me for a poorly glued terringo! So that afterwards someone every year still wonders why the LGTBIQ+ Pride and why not a Hetero Pride day. Manolo, when they kill you to find you boxing behind a bush." "They've also told us, 'I don't care who you sleep with.' I do care. First, because we're gossipy, and second, because since we were little, I've been to all my cousins', siblings', and relatives' weddings. And to their children's baptisms. Therefore, I...

Nadal also recalled the incident that took place last week in Llucmajor, where a couple of boys were beaten up by a group of four youths. "You don't have to go far to understand that there are still 'little things' to be resolved," he lamented. "I often wonder where all the kisses we haven't given each other out of fear have gone, the hugs that have remained unspoken, the horizontalities we haven't shared out of fear of taking the step... I hope that one day an archaeologist queer show us where this cemetery of lost illusions is. And we fear how we have made the pass all this time," he said.

Towards the end of the intervention, the journalist and communicator evoked memories of his childhood: "When I was little, when I saw Blue Summer I would have loved to know that Chanquete (Antonio Ferrandis) was a faggot." He then explained that, while preparing his speech, he had to look back and confront difficult memories, but that the conclusion is "that it was worth it to get here."

"Be who you are. We have the right to be yourself, whatever your gender expression or your desire. Don't let anyone make you believe that you are not valid; whether you love someone or not," he concluded.