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# LGBT+ Centre in Barcelona attacked
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/lgbt-centre-in-barcelona-attacked/
- Published: 2019-02-04T12:49:18.000Z
- Updated: 2019-02-04T12:57:25.000Z
- Description: One week after its inauguration, celebration turned to dismay as the new LGTB+ Centre in Barcelona was vandalised with facist symbols and graffiti which read Fuck LGBT. Its windows were smashed and entrances blocked with crash barriers.
- Author: Besi

## One week after its inauguration, celebration turned to dismay as the new LGTB+ Centre in Barcelona was vandalised with facist symbols and graffiti which read *Fuck LGBT*. Its windows were smashed and entrances blocked with crash barriers.

![](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/web-600-13.jpg)

**THE authorities were** quick to respond with both the mayor and local Catalan government defending their LGBT+ communities and speaking out in favour of sexual and gender diversity.

**Mayor Ada Colau** took to twitter to proclaim the importance of the centre and the diversity of Barcelona itself and on Monday evening led a crowd thousands strong who gathered outside the centre in celebration of the city’s LGBT+ communities.

Locals were quick to handwrite post it notes of support and stick them around the anti-LGBT+ graffiti.

![WEB.600.2](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/web-600-2-5.jpg "WEB.600.2") 

![WEB.600.4](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/web-600-4-1.jpg "WEB.600.4") 

The new LGBT+ Centre opened as a self-described pioneering space for sexual and gender diversity at the forefront of LGBT+ matters in the city. Besides offering information direct support services, the centre is also designed to give a voice to artistic expression and collective action.

![](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/web-600-3-2.jpg)

**Ada Colau, Barcelona’s first female mayor said at the inauguration event:** *“We are standing up for this proudly diverse city, which wants to be an example in the fight against homophobia and in defence of our rights and freedoms”.*

Barcelona and nearby Sitges are amongst the worlds most popular destinations for LGBT+ travellers.