WHERE IS THE RAINBOW? »
People look up at the MADO posters hanging high up on posts along the main streets of Madrid and are flabbergasted. The Rainbow Flag, universal symbol of Gay Pride, has been bumped off the high-occupancy posters, potpourris rich with graphics: a martini glass, bears, flowers, a high-heel shoe, condoms, flowers, teddy bears. . . But where's the Rainbow!
MADO IS BACK! (Not That It Has Ever Left) »
Madrid begins Pride Week on June 28 to commemorate the Stonewall riots in New York City beginning in 1969. At the time, Spain was still under the Franco regime, which declared homosexuals as “dangerous” people with “the lowest levels of morality”. Four years after Franco’s death, on June 25, 1978, at the beginning of La Movida Madrileña, Madrid held it’s first Pride (Orgullo) March
WHAT’S MADO IF NOT THE PROUD CELEBRATION OF MADRID GAY PRIDE! »
“If summer has begun – and it officially began last 27 June – then MADO (Madrid Orgullo or Gay Pride) cannot be not on. It’s one of the most awaited celebrations of the year”
THE LOVELY RAINBOW OVER MADRID »
A boy wondered what the people in the parade were there for and with boundless enthusiasm they told him, “For the gays!”
