- FELGTBI+ celebrates in Santander, from October 10 to 12, 2026, the XXIV edition of Young Without Closets, under the slogan “Learning to cuir-darnos”.
- The meeting is aimed at LGTBI+ youth up to 30 years old and combines training, meeting, and empowerment; registrations are already open.
- The Cantabrian association Alega adds the event to its agenda and confirms the same dates, reinforcing the local anchoring of this state call.
FELGTBI+ has opened registration for the XXIV edition of Young Without Closets, which will be held in Santander from October 10 to 12, 2026 under the slogan “Learning to cuir-darnos”. The event brings together LGTBI+ youth up to 30 years old for a weekend of meeting, training, and empowerment.
What is Young Without Closets 2026?
Young Without Closets 2026 is a state meeting organized by the State LGTBI+ Federation (FELGTBI+) that will bring to Santander, from October 10 to 12, a weekend of meeting, training, and empowerment for LGTBI+ people up to 30 years old. It is not conceived as a conference to observe from the outside, but as a space for active participation, where to learn, share experiences, and build community.
The official program starts on Saturday, October 10 at 18:00. The organization defines the profile of participants by age and manages registration through a specific form available on its official website.
“Learning to cuir-darnos”: care as a central axis
The slogan of this edition, “Learning to cuir-darnos”, combines the verb to care with a spelling that refers to queer. The formulation serves as a declaration of intentions: care does not appear as a complement to the meeting, but as one of its explicit axes.
The official information combines training and empowerment with the meeting, and that combination matters: training provides tools to interpret rights, discourses, and experiences; meeting breaks isolation; empowerment allows transferring what has been learned to everyday life and associative spaces.
FELGTBI+ also describes these days as a place to build community, organize, and imagine other futures, placing LGTBI+ youth in the present of activism and not as a generation that will someday take over.
Why is it celebrated in Santander?
Choosing Santander provides a specific territorial framework for a proposal of state reach. The Cantabrian association Alega, LGTBI+ entity from Cantabria, has included the event in its agenda and confirms the same dates, also facilitating contact routes from the city itself for those traveling or needing to resolve doubts.
The value of a state call is not only in gathering different origins: it also allows needs experienced sometimes individually to be recognized as shared. The available information focuses on three verifiable verbs: meeting, training, and empowerment.
Dates, registration, and what is known so far
The meeting will take place during the October bridge, with confirmed official dates from October 10 to 12, 2026, in a weekend format. For responsible information, no data about accommodation, transportation, gratuity, or other conditions not publicly detailed are added here: those issues must be checked in the official FELGTBI+ form before confirming participation.
What is confirmed as of September 20, 2026, is: the venue (Santander), the dates (October 10-12), the age limit (up to 30 years), the slogan (“Learning to cuir-darnos”), and the opening of registrations.
Program
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10
18:00h – Inauguration
18:30h – Inaugural conference: Youth and precariousness
– Carlos Entenza (CCOO)
– Jade (Tenant Syndicate)
– Andrés Campillo Ponce (CANAE)
– José Santos (CJE)
Moderated by: Vir Markland (Young Group FELGTBI+)
20:30h – Closing
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 11
10:00h – Panel I: Migrant reality
– Rusly Cachina
– MPDL (Movement For Peace)
– Gad Yola
Moderated by: Anaïs (ALEGA)
12:00h – Workshops
– From the Base to Activism (Alicia M and Koali)
– Our Bodies Our Rules (Ángela Prellezo)
14:00h – Lunch
16:00h – Workshops
– Dissidences exist, they have erased us (Toni Higuero)
– HIV and STIs (Layjhonnel, ACCAS)
18:30h – Panel II: Dissident bodies, the structural problem
– Mer Gomez
– Nobody will talk about us
– Artemisa Martinez
Moderated by: Noah (Young Group FELGTBI+)
20:30h – Closing
21:30h – Dinner
23:00h – Gala DGeneraTe
MONDAY, OCTOBER 12
10:00h – Workshop: No Binarisms (Zoe García)
11:30h – Panel III: We do not start from the same place: research and intersectionality.
– Irati (Dekumas)
– Laintersección
Moderated by: David Urdinguio (Young Group FELGTBI+)
13:00h – Conclusion and closing
13:30h – Closing
Frequently asked questions
When and where is Young Without Closets 2026?
It takes place in Santander from October 10 to 12, 2026, with the program starting on Saturday the 10th at 18:00.
Who can participate in Young Without Closets 2026?
LGTBI+ youth up to 30 years old, through prior registration via the official FELGTBI+ form.
What does the slogan “Learning to cuir-darnos” mean?
It combines the verb to care with a spelling that refers to queer, placing care, training, and community as central axes of the meeting.
Who organizes the meeting?
The State LGTBI+ Federation (FELGTBI+), with local collaboration from the Cantabrian association Alega.
Is this the first edition of Young Without Closets?
No, it is the XXIV edition, reflecting continuity and accumulated learning in this type of meeting.
