Agrocuir, a free festival celebrating rural queerness, takes place in the village of Monterroso, Lugo, Spain. This year's edition emphasizes its degrowth vision and intersectional principles, protesting against industrial development and highlighting the importance of rural spaces for LGBTQIA+ individuals.
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Agrocuir, Carolina says, serves to raise awareness of realities that have been marginalized — and to debunk the myth that queerness can only thrive within the constraints of a city. “This is another way of celebrating queerness that can’t be seen in Madrid and hasn’t been commercialized,” she says.
Like last year, streets are draped with strings of sewn aprons, symbolizing the rural women who offered a comforting space for many queer people. Aprons, particularly those featuring tattersall plaid, hold a special place in Galician culture, evoking images of grandmothers clutching a handful of grelos . I even have a tattoo of my grandmother and her sister wearing these garments.
The first coffee I drink on Saturday at noon gives me just enough energy to walk over to Lola’s haberdashery, called “Casa Gaseosas” , honoring its past as a soft drink factory. The rainy morning casts a muted patina over the apartments along the main avenue until I notice the rainbows hanging from the haberdashery’s façade — a colorful defiance against the otherwise somber weather.
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