Author: Madrid Safíco

• November 28, 2021

  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…
• November 22, 2021

  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…