For more than 10 days, the Barcelona City Council has been promoting the numerous events to celebrate the Pride festival that will culminate next Saturday with the usual parade.

However, along with these calls for respect in diversity, you can also find cases of intolerance and verbal aggression, even a few meters from the place chosen to exhibit the Pride floats of the LGTBIQ+ community at Pride.

On social networks, the councilor for LGTBI policies of the Ripollet City Council, Fran Sánchez, denounced that he was the victim of a homophobic incident this Wednesday when he was walking through the Raval neighborhood of Barcelona with a friend.

"We have not stopped a ball that has been kicked at our feet and they have told us: 'shitty fagots' 'eat my dick' 'fuck your ass'. I have answered, yes, shitty fagots and to much honor", comments the mayor who is also a spokesman for the Front d'Alliberament Gai de Catalunya (FAGC).

After the incident, the councilor explained that a group of people followed them and threw the ball over them.

In the face of this aggression, he reported the events to the Observatory against Homophobia, which activated the victim care protocols and informed the Directorate General for Equality of the Generalitat, the Ombudsman, the Municipal Ombudsman and the Mossos d'Esquadra.

"This scourge of hate must be stopped. Absolute rejection of homophobic violence and the terrible increase in LGTBIphobia. All my love and support for the friend and colleague of the FAGC," said the president of the Observatory, Eugeni Rodríguez.

The attacked councilor has promoted numerous campaigns in Ripollet to make the LGTBI community visible and vindicate their struggle.

Precisely, the Minister of Equality Irene Montero visited in this town the mural of LGTBI historical memory a few months ago.

"From municipalism we will continue betting on LGTBI and feminist public policies," the councilor pointed out on the networks.

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