Diocese condemns drag gala mocking Our Lady
With promptness and speed, the Diocese of Calahorra and La Calzada-Logroño has issued a statement to denounce the offence to Christians organised by the association GYLDA LGTBI+ at the 'Drag Gala'.
"The Diocese of Calahorra and La Calzada-Logroño deeply regrets that, according to the media that have given the news, in the "Drag Gala" organised by the association GYLDA LGTBI+, on June 20, in the centre La Gota de Leche in Logroño, a person appears in a disrespectful way parading with a model that simulates the Virgin Mary, which constitutes a real offence to Christians," reads the statement.
The Riojan bishopric stresses that "we deplore the fact that in some scenarios the respect due to others, in this case to believers, is not understood in a city where devotion to the Virgin Mary is an essential part of its life".
The Diocese strongly emphasises that "no supposed artistic freedom can gratuitously harm the sacredness of beliefs, which is an attack on a fundamental right and undermines coexistence".
The events occurred last Tuesday, the 20th, at the 'Drag Gala' organised by the Gylda Lgtbi+ association of La Rioja, in which six drag queens took part wearing costumes made by students of Fashion Design from the secondary school "Hermanos D'Elhuyar" in the capital of La Rioja.
The costume representing the Virgin of Logroño was considered by the jury to be the best of those who paraded and its author received a prize of 100 euros to compensate for material costs, as explained to EFE by sources from the association.
The organisers, although they insist that they did not intend to offend anyone, maintain that "no one should feel offended", as "it is an artistic question and the artist characterised himself as something that does not exist, the Virgin of Logroño".
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