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Spanish cities honor gay communities

by Rex Wockner

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

Three Spanish cities are recognizing LGBT people via public works.
In March, the Barcelona city government will place a large marble pink triangle in Ciudadela Park, where the Catalonian Parliament is located.
"This is a necessary monument to remember the discrimination, repression, humiliation, persecution, attacks and assassinations that the LGTB community suffered for centuries and very especially during the Franco dictatorship," said Antonio Guirado, secretary general of the Catalonian LGBT umbrella group Gay Lesbian Coordinator. "It is an act of justice and reparation but also will become a permanent symbol of the commitment of the city of Barcelona in the fight against homophobia."
The city of Gijon is creating a park called "June 28, Gay Pride Day" alongside the Montevil soccer field.
And La Coruna is renaming a street after the late gay activist Tomas Fabregas, who emigrated to the U.S. at age 21 and was active in the fight against the U.S. ban on HIV-positive foreign visitors and immigrants, which was repealed in 2009.
At the 1992 International AIDS Conference in Amsterdam, which he attended as a board member of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, Fabregas publicly dared the Bush administration to block his re-entry into the U.S. It did not do so. Fabregas died in 1994.

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