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LGBT athletes and representatives of the CSD support the campaign 'Sport with Pride'

The CSD will participate for the first time in the state demonstration of LGTBI Pride

A historic initiative for visibility, diversity and respect for LGBTI people in sport

  • The Superior Sports Council will participate, along with LGTBI athletes, activists and allies, in the great state demonstration this Saturday in Madrid.

  • Under the motto “Sport with Pride”, leading athletes will mobilize for the visibility of the LGTBI community and claim a sports environment free of discrimination.

 

Madrid, July 2, 2025.- The Superior Sports Council (CSD) will participate this Saturday in Madrid in the great state demonstration of LGTBI Pride, where athletes referents of this group, activists and allies will demand a sports environment free of discrimination.

A banner with the slogan “Sport with Pride” will lead the mobilization promoted by the CSD to highlight the commitment of the Government of Spain with visibility, diversity and respect for LGTBI people in the sports environment, from the base to the high level.

In this initiative, a pioneer in Spanish sport, institutional representatives of the CSD, referents, activists and allies will participate.

The meeting place will be the CaixaForum Madrid space, where this Saturday they are convened from 17:00 hours. From there they will begin the march from Atocha to the Plaza de Colón. You can sign up here.

 

Meeting with LGBTI athletes

The participation in the great demonstration this Saturday is part of the campaign “Sport with Pride”, with which the CSD intends “not only that LGTBI athletes feel supported” but also to train and compete in “safe spaces”, as established by the Sports Law approved in December 2022”, said the athlete Aauri Bokesa, delegate of protection and adviser in the Presidency Cabinet of the Superior Sports Council.

To that end, the CSD has organized a meeting at its headquarters with leading athletes and allies. In this context, the athletes María Pérez and Marc Tur, the fencers Gema Hassen-Bey and Teresa Díaz, the footballer Laura del Río and the rugby player Patricia García, among others, have reflected on the situation that LGTBI people live in the sport.

 

 

“It is very important that the largest institution that sport has supports us,” said Olympic champion Maria Perez, for whom such initiatives help “to build a much better society.”

For his part, the athlete Marc Tur, Olympic diploma in Tokyo 2020, has insisted on the role of education as a “key to change” and on the need to address not only LGTBI people, but society as a whole, so that there are “safer environments”.

In the same line, rugby player Patricia García has defended that diversity in sport “is an issue that must involve all areas of society, from public policies to private institutions and, of course, also the citizen.”

The general director and manager of COLEF, Javier Portela, and the coordinator of projects of the entity, Carlota Díez, have also participated in the meeting, who have presented the initiative ‘Bodies that add up, prejudices that fall: Keys to banish prejudice and make Physical Education a place of respect and diversity’.

 

Sport with Pride

With the “Sport With Pride” campaign, which will be present on social networks throughout the week, and with participation in the state demonstration, the CSD wants to reaffirm its commitment to equality in sport and to the design of strategies to promote inclusive and respectful sports environments.

In the development of this campaign, CSD collaborates with Compete Proud. It is an initiative led by the Olympic skater Javier Raya, who has promoted LGTBI projects internationally at the Paris Games 2024 and will also do so at the Winter Games of Milan-Cortina 2026.