SOS LGBT
As every June 28, the LGBTI community ( lesbians, gays, transsexuals, bisexuals and intersex people), as well as their supporters, celebrate International Gay Pride Day An event that commemorates the events that occurred on this day of the year 1969 in New York, the Stonewall riots The catalyst of the movement LGTB that continues to defend equal rights between people and fight to eradicate homophobia from society.Something that can also be done through mobile applications like SOS LGBT.
This is an information and support tool for victims of homophobia, who find in this application data about the procedure and the place to report any type of aggression to his person. Of course, at the moment limited to the community of Madrid in the case of the location of the Police stations and police command the Civil Guard. However, all its information and procedures are valid and useful to reduce to infradenuncia All created by theSpanish Observatory against LGTBphobia
As soon as we start SOS LGBT we find a screen with the latest news about the community LGTB A good way to find the actualidad on the latest notable cases reported by the Observatory, as well of the different campaigns carried out for the visibility of LGTBphobia
Thanks to the side menu, it is possible to jump to other sections. The most important is Report Here the user comes across a Google Maps map where the location of the police station or complaint center closest to the current position of the user is shown In addition, there is a button that directly activate step-by-step navigation to find out how to get there, if necessary. Along with this, interested parties are urged to fill out a complementary complaint form for the information of the Spanish Observatory against LGTBphobia , which keeps track of attacks and complaints to continue and intensify its campaigns and data.
The rest of the sections of the application are merely informative Sections where you can find out what a hate crime and how to recognize an incident of LGTBphobia in order to report it. It also shows data about all these complaints and the cases that have occurred to date, reasoning out the benefits of fighting against this problem for the good of the entire community.
The section is also important How to report A section where the points to be taken into account when going to a police station are marked . Issues such as tell in detail all the events that occurred in the attack (shouting and insults), state that it is a hate attack , present witnesses of what happened and, in the case of a physical attack, present a injury medical report
In short, a useful information tool to obtain effective complaints to continue fighting for a movement that already in 1969 began its journey with protests and demonstrations. Now the fight continues and is helped by new technologies. The application SOS LGBT can be downloaded free from Google Play Store for mobile Android.
