00:03The people have known that I am gay in my work, in all the things I do, and that has
00:09been positive in my life.
00:11Thank God for my family, especially my mother, it was a total support.
00:16My brothers also, and I think that it is something that is normal in all the families.
00:20One is not telling everyone what one is.
00:23I think that no one is heterosexual.
00:27You have to respect what you are.
00:36I started my business very young, because when I started studying,
00:42my parents knew what you were going to do.
00:48I was a rebel in that, so I didn't accept it.
00:51Basically, at the age of 17, they told me,
00:54it was on their own account.
00:55Before, you have to bring money to the house.
00:57So, I started working.
00:59I spent like a year and a half in a company,
01:01and at the age of 17, almost 18, I started my first business.
01:05It was a perfume that lasted more than 30 years.
01:08I closed the last year, because of time.
01:11I started doing things.
01:13I started my first gay bar, when I was about 25 years old.
01:17I started in the area of Lago.
01:18We were in Zona Franca.
01:19It was a bar that lasted for 7,5 years or 8 years.
01:22In that time, I started working on another in La Calera,
01:24called Club Franquicia.
01:26And the experience of these two places,
01:28as I have always said, for me,
01:29it was my university.
01:31I came to Teatron.
01:37It was in the year 1995.
01:40Obviously, we were releasing the Constitution of 1991.
01:44It was not easy to come to a neighborhood and say,
01:46let's open a hotel.
01:47Obviously, that was very negative things in the neighborhood,
01:51in the police.
01:52The police, at that time,
01:54understood that the Constitution
01:56gave the same rights to everyone.
01:59It was very complicated.
02:05It was very complicated.
02:06Today it's another thing.
02:08I think that this has changed a lot.
02:10Today we have all the support of the police,
02:11thanks to God,
02:13and the institutions that really see this in a different way.
02:15It's different.
02:24What was the first place in La Calera?
02:27What was the first place in La Calera?
02:28First, in that time,
02:29when we were in the first place in La Calera,
02:30to be located in the first place,
02:32there was only a gay place in the first place
02:34every three and a half years.
02:35That indicates the little interest
02:37in that segment.
02:39Aparte of that,
02:40the places didn't have any signs,
02:41nothing,
02:42zero signs.
02:43People,
02:45if they parked close,
02:46they put a billet on the plates
02:47so they didn't recognize their car.
02:49You didn't find a gay place in a gay place.
02:53So it was a very clandestine thing.
02:56And that clandestine,
02:57in a certain way,
02:59I think it brought a lot of negative things
03:01to the LGBT community.
03:04People in general thought
03:05that there were terrible things
03:07in LGBT places.
03:08It was like a taboo,
03:10like to say
03:12that it was the most tenaz
03:14that there was in the city.
03:16Theatron started being a place
03:17that opened in 2002,
03:19very small.
03:20It started with Teatrino,
03:21but the boom was good.
03:23And that year,
03:24we opened the main hall
03:25that was Teatron,
03:26which opened in May 10, 2002.
03:29It coincided with
03:30that I had a trip
03:30and wanted to build a discotheque
03:32in a church
03:33like I saw in New York,
03:35that there was one.
03:36And I began to search,
03:38search, search, search, search,
03:39search, search,
03:39and, of course,
03:40one night,
03:41I found the theater,
03:42which was available.
03:43So we started here.
03:45At the beginning,
03:45the reaction was very strong.
03:48The people of the community
03:49of the community
03:50of the police,
03:50the police,
03:52from the first night,
03:53one day,
03:53the police closed with tanks
03:54on the street,
03:55the police closed with tanks
03:57on the street.
03:58It was a very strong experience
04:00at the beginning.
04:00But, at the beginning,
04:02the community
04:03was understanding
04:03that our dynamic
04:05was to contribute.
04:07We started to bring
04:09many businesses
04:10dedicated to the LGBT community
04:12and I believe
04:13that we have been
04:14an element
04:15of contribution
04:16to the sector
04:17and not negative
04:18as people saw it at the beginning.
04:26The people
04:27don't have to hide.
04:29Everybody
04:29has a lot of people
04:31have to hide.
04:32The people
04:33who are our client
04:34know what remains
04:35here.
04:35For our client
04:36it's very natural
04:37to come to the place.
04:38It's like before,
04:40nobody sees it,
04:41try to hide.
04:43Let's forget
04:44the story
04:44of the hidden
04:46and that kind of thing.
04:47Even the place
04:48has evolved.
04:49We had a lot of environments
04:51due to the
04:52that we had
04:53with the people
04:54heterosexual,
04:54we had a lot of environments
04:55only for the LGBT community
04:57and others for the people
04:58heterosexual.
04:58nowadays
04:59it's a lot of
05:01women
05:01and women
05:02and 11
05:02mixed.
05:03That's a lot
05:04of how it works.
05:06I do a lot of
05:07the dynamics
05:07of the day of the day,
05:08for example,
05:09people go to the university
05:10and come to the whole group
05:11of gay and not gay
05:12to rumble
05:14or come to the office
05:15and come to the theater room.
05:18They don't feel
05:18that it's excluded.
05:21We have a new environment,
05:23we have been doing
05:23for more than a year,
05:24it's been a long time
05:25and I know
05:26that the public will say
05:27they promise
05:28and they promise
05:28and they promise
05:29and they don't open,
05:29but I think
05:29it's a good result.
05:34It's called
05:35The Muro.
05:35It's a space
05:36dedicated
05:37to urban art
05:38especially
05:39graffiti.
05:40We are in a neighborhood
05:41where people
05:43despise
05:43urban art
05:44we see Chapinero
05:46is full of
05:46good and bad
05:47even though
05:48we don't know
05:49the concept of bad
05:50but the people
05:51in general
05:51judge it.
05:53We wanted to give a tribute
05:54to that
05:55and we have invited
05:56artists of very good level
05:58we have
05:59Ledania
06:00for example
06:00who is a woman
06:01very important
06:02in urban issues
06:03in Colombia
06:04we have Toxicómano
06:05we have Escort
06:06we have Frank
06:07we have
06:09Pitatán
06:10of Ecuador
06:10we have
06:11Pez of Barcelona
06:12who have done works
06:13in this place
06:15in great format
06:17it's a great
06:17place
06:17that will open
06:18every day
06:18we want to
06:20let people
06:20let us
06:21let us
06:24as vampires
06:25in the night
06:26we want to open
06:27the place
06:27every day
06:28we want to enjoy
06:30if they want to
06:31if they want to
06:34every week
06:35they want to
06:36have a space
06:36where they don't
06:37have any problem
06:38to be what they are
06:39also welcome
06:40to all the people
06:42of the sector
06:42who have great
06:44expect
06:44to happen
06:46and a little bit of fear
06:46I also feel like
06:47what happens
06:48like
06:49Teatron
06:49is going to go
06:49to a street
06:50that is not
06:50the sector
06:54we are going to be united
06:55the weekend
06:57the people
06:58who are in teatron
06:59can pass
06:59to the wall
07:00we are going to have food
07:01we are going to have
07:03music indie
07:03we are going to have pop
07:04we are going to have rock
07:05we are going to have deep
07:06we are going to have
07:07different programming
07:08every day
07:09we are going to have
07:10many surprises
07:11innovation
07:12technology
07:13I think
07:13it is a place
07:14that has invested
07:14a lot of effort
07:15in the design
07:17and we are also
07:18forming a new team
07:19that will manage
07:20that area
07:20and I think
07:21there will be
07:22very interesting things
07:23we are going to have
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