Tag: Basque Country
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Spanish communists intersections with lesbians (women + LGTB)
This is a quick history of Partido Comunista’s intersections with lesbians, and to a lesser extent the broader LGTB movement in Spain since the party’s founding in 1921 by the youth movement inside PSOE. This was cobbled together from existing material in other pieces, with some quickly written text for additional context. It is possible…
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A history of Pride in Logroño
Pride, known as Orgullo in Spanish, appears to have first been celebrated in Logroño in 1981, around four years after the first recognized homosexual march took place in Barcelona and around ten years after the first lesbian led march in honor of Christopher Street Liberation Day took place in Madrid.[1] That year, Asociación Feminista…
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An incomplete history Lesbians and feminism in Spain by region
Last night on my Twitter feed, there were some big discussions about lesbians and feminism in Spain. I can’t really weigh into those debates in Spanish but what I can do is compile a history from various documents I have about lesbians and feminism in Spain. This piece is not very cohesive because what it…
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A history of lesbians in La Rioja, Spain
La Rioja is the smallest region in Spain by population, with only the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla having fewer residents; La Rioja has around 316,000 people compared to Ceuta and Mellila with around 84,000 each and the next smallest region of Cantabria with a population of around 584,000. The small population, the relatively…
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Mariano Rajoy and Pedro Sánchez eras: Everyday life, societal perception and media depictions
Background: This is the last era of the rewrite of the background information. It includes the Pedro Sanchez period up to more or less March 2020 when the pandemic began as it needs an actual ending point. Hoping to get this period finished writing this month and then doing the Amazon self-publishing thing. Everyday life,…
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Mariano Rajoy and Pedro Sánchez eras: Political and legal situation, relationship, family and reproductive rights
With a conservative government in power, the tenor of the campaign for political rights had changed in Spain along with the areas of focus changing.
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Socialist government of José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero (2004 – 2011)
Lesbian life continued to have moments of difficulty across Spain. The financial crisis reduced resources. Attacks on lesbians happened around Spain, and got local and national media attention. Lesbians faced identity issues when they had children. Rural lesbians continued to have move to big cities to avoid discrimination or travel to big cities to have…
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Conservative government of José Maria Aznar (1996 – 2004)
Background: Still rewriting things. This section is all one post. The feminist section is much smaller and split into two separate sections because by then, things really had gone in two directions. This section is only around 14,000 words of a history around 95,000 words so far. Conservative government of José Maria Aznar (1996 –…
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Felipe González: 1982 and 1986: Feminism, lesbianism feminism, feminist lesbianism and lesbian separatism
Both in Spain and around the world, lesbians found themselves displaced; they were ignored by both feminists and by an increasingly misogynistic and patriarchal gay and trans liberation movement in the 1980s. Neither group were willing to address the specific needs of female homosexuals. Consequently, lesbian feminism and lesbian separatist movements began to grow in…
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Felipe González: 1989 and 1993: Feminism, lesbian political feminism
Preface: Still plugging away at writing a broad historical overview of Spanish lesbian history before rewriting travel guides. Feminism, lesbian political feminism In 1989, the lesbian feminist focus shifted to the creation in law banning discrimination against gays and lesbians. In Madrid, these efforts were led by the Grupos de Feministas Lesbianas in COFEE. This…
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