(27 May 2022)
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Madrid - 26 May 2022
1. Various of LGBTQ signage and flags in Madrid
HEADLINE: LGTBQ community concerns over monkeypox stigma
ANNOTATION: Spain's LGBTQ community has expressed worries the emerging outbreaks of monkeypox in Europe could lead to an increase in homophobic sentiment.
2. LGTBQ flags hang from balcony
ANNOTATION: Europe's largest gay pride celebrations start in Madrid next month, and the LGTBQ community feel stigmatized
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Hugo Texeira, Personal trainer:
"It's a little bit of an exaggeration and there is a lot of stigma. I even think that the comment 'it is only in gay circles' is unfortunate."
4. Exterior of Paradise Sauna
ANNOTATION: Spanish health authorities are centring their investigations on links between a recent gay pride event in the Canary Islands.
5. Various exterior of Paradise Sauna
ANNOTATION: And this Madrid sauna, closed by authorities a week ago.
6. Exterior of Madrid's LGTBQ collective 'COGAM', Mario Bláquez looks at photos from gay pride celebrations
ANNOTATION: Gay and bisexual men believe that there is a touch of homophobic hysteria in the wider public's reaction to the rare outbreak of the disease.
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Mario Bláquez, Health Coordinator for the LGBTQ group COGAM:
"Monkeypox is an illness that any member of the community can get, the issue is that we are facing an epidemic outbreak that has once more and unfortunately been seen in the LGBTQ (community) and more precisely gay and homosexual males. But what is happening is similar to the first cases of HIV in 1981."
8. Safe sex campaign poster
STORYLINE:
With one of Europe's largest gay pride celebrations approaching, Spain's LGBTQ community is worried that recent outbreaks of monkeypox on the continent could lead to an increase of homophobic sentiment based on misunderstandings of the disease.
Spanish health authorities said Thursday there were now 84 confirmed cases in the country, the highest number in Europe.
They have been centering their investigations on links between a recent Gay Pride event in the Canary Islands, which drew some 80,000 people at the beginning of May, and cases at a Madrid sauna.
But some people, particularly gay and bisexual men, believe that there is a touch of homophobic hysteria in the wider public's reaction to the rare outbreak of the disease outside of Africa, where it has long been endemic.
Most of the known cases in Europe have been among men who have sex with men, according to authorities in Britain, Spain, Germany and Portugal, and a top adviser to the World Health Organization said it was likely the outbreak was triggered by sexual activity at two recent mass events in Europe.
The outbreak in Spain comes before the build up to Madrid's Gay Pride celebration scheduled for early July, which this year expects to draw a large crowd after health restrictions imposed against the COVID-19 pandemic led to muted or no celebrations over the past two years.
In 2019, some 1.6 million people attended according to the organizers.
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