Orgull

We mark the international day for LGBTIQA+ liberation on 28J, asserting sexual, affective and gender diversity and standing up for the rights and freedoms of the collective.  

The historical date marks the Stonewall riots, in response to the police violence in New York in the early hours of 28 June 1969 in different meeting places for sexual and gender dissidence. 

For the last five years, every day is 28J at the Barcelona LGBTI Centre, and that’s why we work every day to ensure the rights and freedoms of the collective. 

We offer free specialised direct support services for LGBTIQA+ people and those close to them, in coordination with various administrations and organisations. We help people individually or as a group, offering psychological advice and providing support for people in cases of LGBTI-phobia. We also provide specific assistance for trans and non-binary people. We offer a free specialised legal guidance service too.   

Our premises are also home to the Casal Lambda’s Armand de Fluvià Documents Centre, which contains a large number of books, manuals, magazines and other materials for reference or available for loan.  

The LGTBI Centre also offers a cultural and awareness-raising programme, open to everybody and with the aim of promoting the rights of LGTBQIA+ people through cultural and artistic creation. 

One of the key parts of this programme is the party at the centre, which we have been organising since early in 2020 and which was held this year on Saturday 18 May with a programme in two parts: a morning of activities for all audiences at the centre and in C/ Comte Borrell, and an afternoon and evening of concerts in Plaça Catalunya. 

Here is a video summary, produced by Marta Pérez Santos and Sol Fuentes, to remember the best moments we shared during this very special celebration.

A place by and for the neighbourhood 

We are a community and participatory space, where people can meet and reflect. We are a living, open and inclusive space, connected to the neighbourhood of Sant Antoni and the city of Barcelona. 

Since its opening, the centre has been open to the neighbourhood, LGBTIQA+ organisations and the general public, becoming a point of reference for information and support relating to sex-affective and gender diversity.  

This is why various Catalan LGBTIQA+ organisations are calling for the Sant Antoni superblock, located at the junction between the streets of Comte Borrell and Parlament and just few metres from the centre, to be renamed as the 28 June Superblock. A concentration was organised at the superblock itself on Friday, 28 June, at 5 pm,to promote this initiative.

A cultural programme to celebrate and promote 

In June and July, the LGBTI Centre has organised a programme designed in collaboration with other organisations, cultural centres and projects. The activities are all included in the “Orgull de Barri”, a broad programme of local, intergenerational, transfeminist and intersectional artistic proposals promoted by Barcelona City Council.  

The full programme and the municipal campaign can be found at barcelona.cat/orgull