Gay Pride march 'too noisy', complain Chueca residents
14/06/2011
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RESIDENTS and traders in Madrid's Chueca district have called for the city council to stop this summer's gay Pride march from going ahead.
But this has nothing to do with discriminating against the event per se, stresses Esteban Benito, head of the residents' association it is purely in the region noise levels.
He says in the city are two nursing homes in the area and the din caused by the march prevents the elderly inhabitants from sleeping.
Benito claims the racket and volume of people also means shopkeepers do not do any business commerce on the day of the march.
The association says it wants gay Pride to go ahead in Chueca, but to keep within noise levels set by the law.
It has proposed a number of cultural and leisure activities throughout the area as part of the event which would be less disruptive, but that the city council has not given its permission for these to proceed.
Madrid's Chueca district is a popular meeting-place for gays and lesbians, especially singles, since it has greater single-sex bars and pubs per square metre than anywhere else in the city.
RESIDENTS and traders in Madrid's Chueca district have called for the city council to stop this summer's gay Pride march from going ahead.
But this has nothing to do with discriminating against the event per se, stresses Esteban Benito, head of the residents' association it is purely in the region noise levels.
He says in the city are two nursing homes in the area and the din caused by the march prevents the elderly inhabitants from sleeping.
Benito claims the racket and volume of people also means shopkeepers do not do any business commerce on the day of the march.
The association says it wants gay Pride to go ahead in Chueca, but to keep within noise levels set by the law.
It has proposed a number of cultural and leisure activities throughout the area as part of the event which would be less disruptive, but that the city council has not given its permission for these to proceed.
Madrid's Chueca district is a popular meeting-place for gays and lesbians, especially singles, since it has greater single-sex bars and pubs per square metre than anywhere else in the city.
