Selective Pride: the nine embassies in front of which there are never LGBT protests in Madrid

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These demonstrations take place during LGBT "pride" celebrations, a pride that seems rather selective, since it tends to direct its criticism at the right or the Catholic Church, which in no way advocates for any legal or punitive measures to criminalize homosexuality or transsexuality. Things change if we talk about other countries that do not share our cultural roots.

In the world, according to the BBC in 2022, there are six countries that punish homosexuality with the death penalty: Saudi Arabia, Brunei, Iran, Mauritania, Nigeria, and Yemen. Coincidentally, these six countries are members of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). In addition to those mentioned, where the practice of homosexuality is clearly punishable by execution, there are five other countries where the door is open to the death penalty for homosexuals: Afghanistan, the United Arab Emirates, Pakistan, Qatar, and Somalia. Coincidentally, these five countries are also members of the OIC. Regardless of whether or not there is execution, these five countries punish homosexuality with imprisonment.

It should be noted that of the 11 countries mentioned, 9 have embassies in Madrid: Saudi Arabia, Iran, Mauritania, Nigeria, Yemen, Afghanistan, United Arab Emirates, Pakistan and Qatar. You can see the addresses of each of them by clicking on the names of each country.

Inexplicably, there are never LGBT protests in front of these diplomatic missions, which, I insist, represent countries where homosexuality is punishable by death or that open the door to that possibility. The death penalty is monstrous, but it's even more so when it's applied for a cause like this, and there's no religious tradition that justifies such an atrocity. Punishing homosexuality with death is a crime that should be clearly rejected in democratic countries like Spain. However, the LGBT movement, largely left-leaning, simply ignores this issue.

This is not an isolated case. In May of last year, I already criticized here the photo that a smiling Pedro Sánchez took with some representatives of the aforementioned countries, specifically Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), which shelters those countries. Sánchez and his party have never criticized those countries for treating homosexuals in this way.

I would also like to remind you that in 2019 I reported that Podemos, a far-left party with ties to Iran, has never been banned from "pride" events. Let us remember that the founder of that party, Pablo Iglesias Turrión, presented a program for years on a television channel of the Iranian Islamist dictatorship without ever making a single criticism of its treatment of homosexuals. However, the Popular Party and Ciudadanos did suffer exclusions from that event, a veto justified by their pacts with Vox, a right-wing party that in 2020 denounced the "historical hatred of the left towards homosexuals" and its support for homophobic idols like Che Guevara.

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Photo: Google Street View. Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Madrid.