Draft:Lambda Collective of Lesbians, Gays and Transsexuals

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Lamba Collective of Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Bisexual People
FormationSeptember 25, 1986 (1986-09-25)[1]
TypeRegional organization
PurposeDefense of the equal rights of LGBT people and for sexual, gender, and family diversity.
Region
Valencia
Websitehttps://lambdavalencia.org

The Lambda Collective of Lesbians, Gays, and Transsexuals is a private association that works to defend the rights of lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgender people in the Valencian Community of Spain.

One group of activists, the Gay Liberation Movement of the Valencian Country (MAG-PV), existed previously in Valencia but dissolved in 1986. This was the same year the Lambda Collective was created, with divisions in Alicante and Castellón de la Plana.[2]

The legal discrimination and social marginalization of the LGBT community have not stopped, but the forms of activism to combat these issues have changed. The Collective continues to act against homophobia, fight for LGBT equal rights, conduct information and education campaigns on sexual identity and the prevention of sexually transmitted infections,[3] and support other associations and individuals. It also has a religious affairs division and a group for gay Christians.[4]

In 1990, the Positive Group was created within the collective, together with the Positive Gays of the Gay-Lesbian Organization of Catalonia, the Gay Hotsa of Bilbao and the COGAM of Madrid to launch a new movement to support HIV positive people gays who wanted to take into account their specificity, despite recognizing that AIDS can affect everyone and is not restricted to groups at risk.

Every year, since 1995, the Lamda Collective has organized the June 28th Awards,[5] known since 2002 as the Margarida Borràs Awards,[6] given to people or entities that distinguished themselves in defending the rights or improving the situation of the LGBT community.[7][8] In 2011, the prize was awarded to Rubén Sancho, for his career in defense of equality, to the Coordinator of Associations to Fight AIDS of the Valencian Community (CALCSICOVA)[9], and to Mónica Oltra and Sebastián Fontana, lawyers defending LGBT rights.[10]

The Lambda Collective is a member of the State Federation of Lesbians, Gays, Transsexuals and Bisexuals (FELGTB), the International Association of Gays and Lesbians (ILGA) since 1999,[11] the Coordinator of Associations Fighting HIV-AIDS of the Valencian Community (CALCSICOVA), the State Coordinator of HIV-AIDS (CESIDA), the Feminist Platform of the Valencian Country, the Popular Christian Communities of Valencia, the current We Are Church and Christian Networks, the Social Volunteering Platform of the Valencian Country, the Youth Council of Valencia, the Social Forum of Valencia, and the Council of Citizens of the Valencian Country.[12] In addition, Lambda has signed a collaboration agreement with the Ministry of Social Welfare, the Youth Council of the Valencian Community (CJCV), the Workers' Commissions of the Valencian Country (CCOO-PV), the General Union of Workers of the Valencian Country (UGT-PV), the Valencian Interunion, and the General Labor Confederation (CGT).[13]

References[edit]

  1. ^ El Col·lectiu Lambda de Valencia celebra su 25 aniversario con una cena-fiesta el sábado 24 de septiembre notícia a El periódico de aquí del 7 de setembre de 2011 (in Spanish)
  2. ^ Barry D. Adam, Jan Willem Duyvendak, André Krouwel, «Passion for Life: Spain» in The Global Emergence of Gay and Lesbian Politics: National Imprints of a Worldwide Movement. Philadelphia, Editorial de la Temple University, 1999, pàgina 237, ISBN 1-56639645-X
  3. ^ Isabel Hurtado et al. «Intervención preventiva en lugares de interacción social de hombres que mantienen relaciones sexuales con otros hombres - Preventive intervention in venues for interaction used by men who have sex with men» a la Gaceta Sanitaria, tom 24 número 1, gener 2010 (in Spanish) amb resum en anglès
  4. ^ El colectivo cristiano de Lambda pide que los matrimonios gays sean consagrados[dead link] - notícia a Levante-EMV del 28 de juny de 2005 (in Spanish)
  5. ^ "Còpia arxivada" (PDF). La força dels somnis. 25 anys lambda. Catàleg de la mostra expositiva del Col·lectiu Lambda de lesbianes, gais, transsexuals i bisexuals celebrada amb motiu del seu 25é aniversari (1986 - 2011). 2012. p. 50. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-01-28. Retrieved 2016-01-19. Archived 2016-01-28 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ "Premis Margarida Borràs 2015". Lambdavalencia.org. Archived from the original on 2016-01-26. Retrieved January 2016. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
  7. ^ «Les diputades Isaura Navarro i Carmen Monton reben el premi Margarita Borràs», Levante-EMV, 30 June 2005
  8. ^ Levante-EMV, «Cuesta y Comunidades Cristianas, premios Lambda», Levante-EMV, 29 de juny de 2007
  9. ^ "CALSICOVA Home".
  10. ^ «Premis Margarida Borràs 2011»
  11. ^ Col·lectiu Lambda - València Archived 2012-02-02 at the Wayback Machine Web de l'ILGA, [consulta 3 de febrer 2012]
  12. ^ "Qui som?". Col·lectiu Lambda. Archived from the original on 2012-08-10. Retrieved 2012-2-2. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
  13. ^ "Qui som?". Col·lectiu Lambda. Archived from the original on 2012-08-10. Retrieved 2012-2-2. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |access-date= (help)

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