Author: Madrid Safíco
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Ruta de Lesbians: AIDS in Madrid
Lesbians in Spain have a complicated history with AIDS. For the most part, it has not impacted our community in the same way it impacted other members of the rainbow. At the same time, the virus did impact our relationship with other members of the rainbow and organizations that represented us. Like the events around…
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Ruta de Orgullo: Lesbians at Pride in Spain
This is a three-part piece. The first is a history of lesbian involvement in Pride in Spain. This, the second part, is a guide to Madrid related sites connected to Orgullo, and some of the history attached to those places. . This part, the last part is much the same as the second, except the…
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Ruta de Orgullo: Lesbians at Pride in Madrid
This is a three-part piece. The first is a history of lesbian involvement in Pride in Spain. This, the second part, is a guide to Madrid related sites connected to Orgullo, and some of the history attached to those places. It is not so a guided walking route but a list of places connected to…
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Ruta de Gloria Fuertes: Madrid
Gloria Fuertes was a poet and member of the Generación del 50, the first post-war generation of Spanish writers. She was a lesbian and feminist, and an important one in Francoist Spain at a time when the regime demanded conformity to strict ideological gender roles. She was a chain smoker, remained single her whole life and…
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Ruta de Miss Fillis
Phyllis Burrows Turnbull, more commonly known in Spain as Miss Fillis, was a professor in Department of Spanish at Bryn Mawr College, and the creator of the “Center for Hispanic Studies” of Bryn Mawr College. Turnbull was romantically linked to Spanish writer Gloria Fuertes, with their relationship lasting 15 years. The two met when Turnbull…
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Ruta de Gloria Fuertes: Streets in her honor
While it is important for us as lesbians to remember Gloria Fuertes for her lesbianism to better see ourselves reflected in history and Spanish society, she was also a hugely famous and influential author in her day who was able to be relatively out of the closet despite the constraints of Francoism. The power of…
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Ruta de Gloria Fuertes: Lavapies
Gloria Fuertes was a poet and member of the Generación del 50, the first post-war generation of Spanish writers and a famous writer of children’s poetry. She was a lesbian and feminist, and an important one in Francoist Spain at a time when the regime demanded conformity to strict ideological gender roles. She was a chain…
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