Dozens of people have gathered this Wednesday in Santa Cruz de Bezana to protest against the withdrawal by the municipal government of PP and Vox from the film “Lightyear”, in which a kiss between two women appears.

In the midst of a festive atmosphere and with many rainbow flags, the LGTBI collective has protested against what they consider an act of censorship for homophobic reasons and has claimed “free love”. Singing “Bésame mucho” by Luis Miguel and to the rhythm of a batucada, the nearly 200 people who have come to the square in front of the City Hall building, where the municipal plenary session was held, have met with the idea that the team of government, the only one in Cantabria with a Vox presence, will face “a rain of kisses” LGTBI.

After 28-M, the municipal coalition government (PP-Vox) decided to withdraw the children's film “Lightyear” from the cinema offer for the summer, which the PSOE, which led the previous government team, blamed on the ” censorship” and caused outrage on social networks and at the political level.

The initiative has been promoted by the councilor of Equo in Miengo (municipality near Bezana) Sara Gómez, who has celebrated the high influx before the media present. Gómez has affirmed that it is about “protesting against Vox censorship” in Bezana but also in several town halls in Spain, due to the withdrawal of films such as “Lightyear”, which he has defended that “in the only countries where it has caused problems is in those of the Middle East”. And it has encouraged similar actions in other municipalities in Spain, such as Valdemorillo, where a play by Virgina Woolf was withdrawn.

While the “kissed” was celebrated and before the plenary session began, the mayoress of Santa Cruz de Bezana, Carmen Pérez Tejedor (PP), who until now had not spoken out about the withdrawal of the film, has crossed out the conflict of “fictitious polemic”.

In a statement sent to the media, he has defended that “there are no coexistence problems” in the municipality and has accused the opposition of “using the change in the summer cinema programming for political interests”.. Specifically, Pérez has accused the PSOE spokesman and his predecessor in office, Alberto García Onandía, of “using” and “targeting the LGTBI collective”, before the 23-J elections. “That has no justification of any kind,” he considered.

The popular councilor has stressed that the door of her office “is open” to anyone “who has felt used and singled out” and has branded the controversy over the film as a “harassment campaign”.