The aim of the institutional event is to raise awareness and sensitise society to the specific needs of this group.

The Minister for Equality, Ana Redondo, inaugurates the institutional act on the occasion of Lesbian Visibility Day. The Minister for Equality, Ana Redondo, inaugurates the institutional act on the occasion of Lesbian Visibility Day.

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Lesbian Awareness Day

The Minister for Equality, Ana Redondo, has inaugurated the institutional act on the occasion of Lesbian Visibility Day. Organised by the Ministry of Equality through the Women’s Institute and the Directorate General for the real and effective equality of LGTBI+ people, the aim of the event is to raise awareness and sensitise society to the specific needs of this group.

Ana Redondo highlighted the double discrimination faced by lesbian women, who she said continue to be made invisible. The minister also wanted to recognise the work of those women who ‘paved the way in difficult times, and who took the lead, not only in the demands for their rights as lesbians but also in the great feminist demands’.

The event included the debate ‘Lesbian and feminist women. Past, present and future”, with the participation of María Such Palomares, former Director General of the Valencian Women’s Institute; Rosario Sierra Moreno, Corporate Business Development Manager at LinkedIn Corporation Spain and Portugal; and María Ángeles Goicoechea Gaona, lecturer at the University of La Rioja.

The event paid tribute to lesbian women, some of them great references of feminism and social conquests in recent centuries, and was closed by the director of the Women’s Institute, Isabel García, with music by Rocío Saiz Madera.