ALFAZ CELEBRATES DIVERSITY

ALFAZ DEL PI celebrated International LGBT+ Pride Day last week and the local council used the opportunity to hand out the awards for the fourth Short Story Competition that this year focused on gender diversity.

The Short Story Competition is organised by the Cooperation and Volunteering, Youth and Culture departments of the town hall and aimed at young residents aged between 10 and 30 years old.

The competition establishes two age categories of participation, namely 10 to 15 and 16 to 30. Three prizes were awarded per category, consisting of vouchers of €150, €100 and €50 to be spent in local bookshops.

The prize ­ giving took place at the Espai Cultural Escoles Velles with Alfaz Mayor Vicente Arques presiding over the event that drew nearly 100 people to the culture centre.

“This year the Short Story Competition addressed gender diversity, transmitting positive values of tolerance, coexistence, solidarity, empathy, friendship, cooperation, dialogue, responsibility, equality and human rights,” declared Cooperation and Volunteering councillor Isabel Muñoz.

The prize­giving was part of a series of acts to mark International LGBT+ Pride Day, which included hang­ ing the rainbow flag from the front of the town hall and the reading of a manifesto by ALGTB BenidormMarina Baixa and the LGTBIQ+ Federation of Alicante province also at the Escoles Velles.