Tag: Alcalá de Henares

• August 20, 2022

  A history of women and public toilets+baths in Spain

  Unlike the United States and the United Kingdom, the history of women’s toilets and public bathrooms in Spain is not very well documented.  That is a rather depressing given the debate, or lack of debate even, around converting single-sex toilets in Spain to dual-sexed toilets.  This post is a first take on my part with…
• January 3, 2022

  Francoist Spain (1938 – 1975)

  Preface: I am in the process of trying to rewrite the preface historical material for the travel guides, and split it into a separate book. At that point, I want to then go back and do a much better job at doing the travel guide part and history of some of the specific parts of…
• 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…