Ernest Urtasun, a member of the leftwing Sumar platform who was appointed culture minister last November, told MPs he was committed to “guaranteeing the effective exercise of cultural rights throughout Spain” and ensuring that creative institutions engaged with society and the wider world.
In July last year, the PP-Vox council of the northern Spanish town of Bezana apparently cancelled a screening of the Toy Story spin-off film Lightyear because it features a kiss between two women – a scene that led to the movie being banned in Saudi Arabia. Vox has also been accused of vetoing a theatrical adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s time-travelling, gender-shifting classic Orlando because its protagonist “goes from being a man to a woman”.
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“With that in mind, one of the challenges we’re proposing … is the establishment of spaces for dialogue and exchange that will allow us to move past a colonial framing or one rooted in old gender or ethnocentric habits that have so often damaged how we see heritage, history and artistic legacies.”
In July last year, the PP-Vox council of the northern Spanish town of Bezana apparently cancelled a screening of the Toy Story spin-off film Lightyear because it features a kiss between two women – a scene that led to the movie being banned in Saudi Arabia.
Vox has also been accused of vetoing a theatrical adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s time-travelling, gender-shifting classic Orlando because its protagonist “goes from being a man to a woman”.
Vox had argued that last year’s Periferias festival – which was dedicated to Gypsy culture – was a waste of money that “serves only to shower arty-farty trendy lefties with thousands of euros”.
Opposition MPs took exception to being called censors and to what they saw as Urtasun’s revisionist, partisan and politically correct approach to culture and Spain’s imperial past.
Robles also accused Urtasun of comparing Spain’s imperial activities to Belgium’s atrocities in the Congo and of falling victim to the centuries of anti-Spanish and anti-Catholic propaganda known as the Black Legend.
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