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”.
It never occured to me that in modern day Europe, open cultural exchange can’t be taken for granted. And that apperantly, certain actors/ political parties ( Vox),are (trying to) censor art. These are strange times.