Fifteen years ago Nauzet Gugliotta came out of the closet. He is a diverse person, like some of the dozens of students who listened to him attentively in the courtyard of the IES El Chapatal. Many had a rainbow mask on their faces, as did many teachers. “I was subjected to violence and they discriminated against me“Fifteen years later, who has become the Equality Counselor of the Cabildo of Tenerife.
Gugliotta’s was the first intervention of the day at this institute in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, where the Ministry of Education wanted to vindicate the day against LGTBIphobias that is remembered every may seventeenth.
“One of the most important collective goals of the human being is to banish hatred wherever it is,” he said. Manuela Armas. “Now that they are young, they aspire to achieve full freedom and enjoy individual and collective rights, but none of this is possible without equality,” continued the Minister of Education for the Government of the Canary Islands, who wanted to make an idea clear: “equality is essential to achieve rights“.
The day of the demand for a more just and egalitarian society model and non-discrimination towards LGTBI people coincided with the debate in the Parliament of the Canary Islands of the Equality Commission on the opinion for the Proposal of Law of social equality and non-discrimination by reason of gender identity, gender expression and sexual characteristics. “This is a breakthrough for this society and I wanted to share it with you,” added Armas.
Equality Committee
This historic institute in the capital of Tenerife created a Solidarity committee ten years ago. In it, they began to work on the values among the students and the tools to combat situations of discrimination. “At the beginning there were fewer students, especially high school“, remember White Bethlehem, teacher and coordinator of the project. “Now there are about thirty who work actively” and of all levels.
“It is necessary to continue working“In the classrooms, LGTBI matters. In fact, Blanco affirms that” what we try to convey here is sometimes met with reluctance; It is difficult to accept Lgtbiphobias. There were people who thought that it was not necessary to work on this type of discrimination because they believed that equality already exists between all people“.
Aimar Trujillo is one of the students who is part of the team of the Equality Committee of the secondary school. “The truth is that it is fair to say that we have advanced in recent years, but as young people we are nonconformists by nature. “But in front of the lectern and in front of their classmates, teachers and the Minister of Education, his message is clear:” Today’s youth are much more aware and are more proactive in doing activism, but we must not lower our guard and ignore the danger posed by the proliferation of hatred and intolerance for our freedoms“.
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