- The demonstration starts this Saturday, July 4 at 7:00 p.m. from Atocha under the institutional motto “To the streets with pride! Dissidence and resistance.”
- A human wave of more than a million people, supported by 47 floats and a hundred groups, will turn the capital into the epicenter of queer resistance.
- A second social leader with civil society agents, unions and foundations will unanimously demand a State Pact against hate speech.
The capital of Spain is preparing to protect its won rights through what is expected to be the largest civil mobilization on the entire continent. The LGTBI+ State Pride 2026, coordinated jointly by the LGTBI+ State Federation (FELGTBI+) and the Madrid collective COGAM, will take over the roads of the urban center this Saturday, July 4. The organizational deployment, which has the technical support of almost a hundred volunteers and the participation of more than 100 delegations of protesters, plans to bring together more than a million attendees in a day of high political and social tension.
A political and cultural bloc on the front line of dissidence
The official march will begin its journey at 7:00 p.m. from Plaza de Carlos V (Atocha) and will run along Paseo del Prado and Recoletos until it culminates in Plaza de Colón. The first banner of the demonstration will display the motto of this edition: “To the streets with pride! Dissidence and resistance.” This banner will be made up of a transversal front that will unite grassroots LGTBI+ activism with the maximum responsibilities of the central administration, the legislative power and the fabric of contemporary arts.
Among the political and institutional figures who will carry this first security closure, the Minister of Equality, Ana Redondo, stands out; the general director for Real and Effective Equality of LGTBI+ People, Julio del Valle; the commissioner of the 50 years of ‘Spain in Freedom’, Carmina Gustrán; and the secretary of LGTBI Policies of the PSOE, Víctor Gutiérrez. The representation of the Madrid legislative chambers and the senate will be attended by the senator for Más Madrid, Carla Antonelli, and the spokesperson for Employment, Jimena González, accompanied by the regional deputies Santi Rivero and Eduardo Rubiño, and the municipal spokespersons Rita Maestre and Reyes Maroto.
The world of culture and legal defense will also add visible efforts to the front line of the march. The singer Zahara and the actor Raúl Rejón will give voice to the dissident cultural sectors along with references of specialized activism such as the intersex activist Mer Gómez, the popularizer Estupenda Márquez, the human rights defenders of Venezuelan origin Yendri Velásquez and Karla Maldonado, and the AEGAL delegate, Susana Pariente. In an unprecedented way, the header will also include Miguel Ángel Aguilar, prosecutor of the Coordinating Chamber against Hate and Discrimination Crimes of the State Attorney General’s Office, evidencing the judicial weight of the day.
A second headline demands a State Pact in Congress
The intersectional nature of this LGTBI+ State Pride 2026 will be clearly materialized in the display of a second official banner with a marked institutional profile. Under the slogan “State Pact against hate speech now!”, this block will be made up of representatives and leaders of more than twenty social organizations that provide regular coverage to minorities and groups exposed to critical situations of exclusion, stigma or vulnerability. This social alliance coordinated by the FELGTBI+ already has an active parliamentary subcommittee in the Congress of Deputies in charge of processing its legislative framework.
The union and civil support of this second block will be led in person by the general secretaries of the main unions in the country, Pepe Álvarez (UGT) and Carolina Vidal (confederal secretary of CCOO). Key figures from the third sector will march alongside them such as Jesús González (ONCE Foundation), María del Carmen Cortés (Secretariado Gitano Foundation), Mónica López (CEAR), Mar Amate (Spanish Volunteer Platform), Raúl Torrent (CNSE), Juan José Argüello (Foundation December 26), Javier Gacio (Oxfam Intermón), Luisa Estévez (Pedro Zerolo Foundation), Catalina Perazzo (Plataforma por la Infancia), Vanesa Alonso (Chrysallis), Toni Poveda (CESIDA), Pablo Laguna (Secular Europe) and Javier Sánchez (CEAPA).
Civil appeal against the advance of reactionary speeches
The leadership of the organizing organizations, headed by Paula Iglesias (FELGTBI+) and Ronny de la Cruz (COGAM), has issued a mobilization manifesto expressly addressed to all Spanish civil society, urging allied citizens and defenders of democratic freedoms to overflow the Paseo del Prado route. Activists remember that, although the country has a robust body of protection regulations, the laws are not enforced on their own if administrations let their guard down in the face of the continued rise in attacks on the streets.
The parade of the 47 authorized floats will close the protest march combining music and leisure with resistance against the reactionary sectors that try to restore discriminatory dynamics of past eras. For grassroots groups, going out this July 4 with pride constitutes an essential exercise in historical memory to make visible the labor, health and sex inequalities that persist, consolidating Madrid as the international speaker for those who continue to be silenced and persecuted outside our borders.
Demonstration tour
The Madrid Pride demonstration will go through, like every year, some of the main arteries of the city.
The starting point will be at the the Carlos V roundabout (Atocha) and the route will end at the Plaza de Colón, where the manifesto will be read.
🚨 CALL | This Saturday, July 4, Madrid becomes the epicenter of civil rights in Europe. Activists, artists and members of the Government will lead the 2026 LGTBI+ State Pride demonstration. 🧵👇 #MADO2026
