Madrid, Spain: Lesbian couple defends themselves against lesbophobic attack

Celia and Capucine

Only one day after more than 300 thousand women filled the centre of Madrid with sorority, vindication and cries of equality and justice, only the day after women, and especially lesbian women, fought for the cessation of the lesbophobia and discrimination based on sexual orientation,  unacceptable lesbophobic aggression occurs. … This story happened on Saturday in the neighborhood of Salamanca. Celia, from Madrid, was walking with her Belgian girlfriend, Capucine, and they told us that the events took place: “It was 8 o’clock in the afternoon and we were in Goya street 17. In that portal there is a kind of corridor that leads to a interior patio that has shops. We were walking and we went to see them. While we were at the entrance of the portal, Capucine came and kissed me, but let’s go, a peck, nothing that would attract attention or anything. At that moment the doorman of the building comes out of his box and shouts at us that we can not be there, ‘outside’, he tells us. I thought that since I was just leaning against the wall I might have hit a switch or something, and that was why he was reprimanding us. We looked back and there was nothing, so the second we understood that we were getting attention for being a couple. ”
(Translated)

Tan solo un día después de que más de 300 mil mujeres llenaran el centro de Madrid de sororidad, reivindicación y gritos de igualdad y justicia, tan solo al día siguiente de que las mujeres, y en especial las mujeres lesbianas, lucháramos por el cese de la lesbofobia y la discriminación por orientación sexual, se produce una agresión lesbófoba inaceptable. … Esta historia ocurrió el sábado en el barrio de Salamanca. Celia, madrileña, paseaba junto a su novia belga, Capucine, y así nos han contado que transcurrieron los hechos: “Eran las 8 de la tarde y estábamos en la calle Goya 17. En ese portal hay una especie de pasillo que conduce a un patio interior que tiene tiendas. Nosotras estábamos paseando y nos metimos para verlas. Mientras estábamos en la entrada del portal, Capucine se aceró y me dio un beso, pero vamos, un pico, nada que llamara la atención ni nada. En ese momento sale de su garita el portero del edificio y nos grita que no podemos estar ahí, ‘fuera’, nos dice. Yo pensé que como estaba justo apoyada en la pared quizás le había dado a un interruptor o algo, y que por eso nos estaba reprendiendo. Miramos para atrás y no había nada, así que al segundo entendimos que nos estaba llamando la atención por ser una pareja”.
(Original)

Continue reading at: http://www.mirales.es/pareja-lesbianas-valiente-agresion-madrid/ (Source)

One response to “Madrid, Spain: Lesbian couple defends themselves against lesbophobic attack

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