Death threats and demonstrations, it was the war between Raúl Velasco and the LGBT+ community

Throughout his brilliant and controversial career on Mexican television, Raul Velasco He had a more than difficult relationship with the LGBT+ community because the title of “Always on Sunday” has come to assure on different occasions that Homosexuality was a disorder caused by mental deviations, which earned him to be the target of strong death threats and he even generated different protests against him in which he was forced to remove him from television.

There are various official documents under the protection of the General Archives of the Nation in which it is evident that the year 1980 was the most critical moment of the “war” of Raúl Velasco and the LGBT+ community Well, that year the title of “Siempre en Domingo” came to make different claims that infuriated the members of said community, since he assured in the middle of the live broadcast and on a national channel that Homosexuality was a disorder caused by mental deviation and after that at least 50 members of the LGBT+ community demonstrated near Televisa Chapultepec.

According to the report, members of the LGBT+ community They demanded a public apology from Raúl Velasco and removed his program from television but that just didn’t happen and contrary to that on different occasions made very offensive comments against the LGBT+ community which made the relationship between the two parties even tougher and it is said that It was from this situation that the producer also began to receive strong death threats.which he reported to the relevant authorities, although anyone’s arrest was never reported.

It should be mentioned that, despite Raul Velasco brought their respective complaints in the face of these strong death threats, of which various members of the family of the headline of “Siempre en Domingo” were also targeted. never spoke about it publicly Well, the driver made sure the issue didn’t fall into the public domain, as he was aware that it would mean a scandal of capital proportions that could land him in serious trouble.

On the other hand, Raúl Velasco featured different singers from the LGBT+ community in “Siempre en Domingo”However, he was very strict and only accepted well-established personalities who could give him a rating, however, with artists who were just looking for an opportunity, he was very harsh in his criticisms and on a few occasions he even exposed singers . for the way they dress and even asked them to change their look and the way they perform on stage.