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WATCH: Spanish Video Shows How Public Reacts to Anti-LGBT Discrimination
WATCH: Spanish Video Shows How Public Reacts to Anti-LGBT Discrimination
This social experiment helps prove that Spain is one of the most pro-LGBT nations in existence.
How would you react if you knew a gay couple was being discriminated against? That's the question Spain's State Federation for LGBTs (known simply as the FELGTB), wanted to know, and its activists took to the streets of Madrid to find out.
As part of the #ConLaVozBienAlta campaign, FELGTB conducted an on-the-street social experiment to see just how people would react to everyday homophobia. Two men, posing as a gay couple visiting from the United States, go up to city dwellers asking them to translate a message left for them by the owners of a hostel they are planning to stay in. The message, though, contains a lot of very homophobic language.
The results of the video reaffirm that there are actually good people in the world, with many of the Madrid locals looking and acting very troubled after having read the antigay note the traveling couple received.
"It's better if you go to another hostel. This one is not very good." one woman tells the men. Another woman tears up while trying to translate the homophobic note, and another man suggests reporting the note to authorities.
Spain has long been known as one of the most LGBT-friendly countries in the entire world, with a Pew Research survey from last year ranking it at the the top of the list for pro-gay nations. It has had marriage equality since 2005.
Watch the FELGTB video in its entirety below.
