Mr. Gay Pride Salamanca 2018 – Andrés Blázquez
Name : Andrés
Surname : Blázquez Marcos
Age and date of birth: 28/08/1986
Instagram : andreaskermusic
Height : 180
Weight : 79
Education : senior technician in radiotherapy
Profession : senior technician in radiotherapy at the MD ANDERSON oncology clinic
Biography : I was born in a small town in Salamanca, I suffered bulling in my town and in the institute. I hid my orientation for fear of rejection by my family because they are very conservative.
As a child he was on tiptoe and was the reason for all the mockery, added to my obvious orientation and being a pretty chubby child. It was a very complicated childhood, I was locked in the top of the attic while looking at the children in the street, scared to death if they would see me and insult me again.
My mother was terrified by my father's reaction to my imminent coming out of the closet and for it I kept it hidden from my father until years later. But it was music and my relationship that gave me the courage to tell my father by letter.
I had nothing to hide, I did not do anything wrong. My partner did not deserve to be treated like that, hidden when he had been living in his house for two years, and most importantly I did not deserve to live another minute with fear.
Being in the choir of gay men it hurt me not to have in front of my family, proud of their son. Little had to lose already, if I was rejected I would continue with my life. My father's reaction was positive towards me, because all he asked me was that my life would not affect his and his personal relationships within a small town. Instead, he reproached my sisters and mother for the lack of support for such a secret, a whole lesson. Today my goal is to offer a real image of a gay man, as a couple for 4 years, happy and openly gay in work and family, and why not, with the hope of getting married someday.
Hobbies Volunteer in an NGO in the field of sexual health and against the stigma of HIV. Giving talks to cousin-infected children and distributing condoms in the neighborhood of Chueca.
I love swimming, I have been part of a team formed by a group of medalists that compete while making the LGTBI collective visible.
Music: I've been in LGBT choirs for four years, where I've been enriched by diversity within the same LGTBI collective and with which I was able to play characters in important theaters in Madrid.
In addition, I am a singer-songwriter, very committed to my lyrics in changing things in terms of freedom, normalization and diversity for various problems of the collective. For a couple of years I have been publishing my own songs in a self-financed and independent way, that has allowed me to sing in many rooms of the Madrid environment and in different Prides.
Why would you like to be elected Mr. Gay Pride Spain 2018? Well, I think I can bring a different image to the world, away from stereotypes.
I am a sports person but I do not focus my life on the image, I like to eat too much, and it is interesting to approach with humility the role of Mister and be one more, the beauty of having defects. Well, we are the most different, the most beautiful.
I seek with my voice and letters to send a clear message to change things, and being mister gay pride could give me a solid and respected platform with which to reach more people.
That there is better than art to move the soul of all.
I am in the process of composing my album in which I treat taboo subjects such as hiv, transsexuality, polyamory .... and I hope to help everyone who identifies with my music and remove others head, only this way things are achieved.
No doubt this could be a springboard to be heard, to calm those who have lived or are suffering things similar to those that I could pass.
That people identify and see an example of improvement through which to exit the hole.
Also help visibility and normalization as a public person in areas such as fashion, film, music or sports, in which the fact of being gay does not mean a handicap to achieve their goals.
I have it clear, we are here to build a better world for those who are about to arrive and that is only achieved by working, and I am willing.
I no longer hide myself, nor I ASK FORGIVENESS and as one of my themes would say "it is time to shine".
Or as I sang in my theme for Eurovision 2016, "today we all shout for free love here, because it's a reality, if you're with me, and you feel free here, I need you affection, always," which has undoubtedly been one of my most autobiographical topics regarding my orientation, just when I told my father that I was gay.
What would be your social objective? I want to fight against homophobia, but also against plumophobia and break ghettos.
I want to see more lgtbi couples holding hands without fear and free.
I want the equality of the trans people, and that I do not have to witness as last year, as one of my dancers had to present her name of the male name because of the bureaucratic slowness.
I want to end the stigma of people with HIV, but also promote sex with caution.
I want it to be from big capitals, being gay is not a secret, it is not a shame, nor an insult, that the new generations feel free to explore and decide without fear of rejection.
I would like to put on the table a topic like abuse between same-sex couples. I also collaborate with a women's association and this is a field that has a great legal vacuum.
There are many things that change at a legal level and even more at the social level, inside and outside the collective, because in many cases I think we are our main Achilles heel.
If something has taught me life is that to accept others, first you must accept yourself and then your speech will reach the whole world.
We all deserve to be happy and there is no reason to feel rejected.
Respect, respect and maybe one day we will be respected exactly the same.