Tag: Canary Islands

• March 30, 2023

  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…
• February 17, 2022

  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. 
• February 3, 2022

  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…
• January 25, 2022

  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 –…
• January 19, 2022

  An Extremadura Lesbian History

  One of the issues I have been having recently is an understanding that lesbian history often needs context, be it a broader historical context to establish the cultural narrative for which that history is situated or a theoretical framework such as feminist or queer theory. Below is a brief example of what happens when you…
• January 11, 2022

  Felipe González: 1989 and 1993: Legal, European and political situation

  There were few major legal and European wide reforms in the second half of the González period. IU would start campaigning for equality.
• January 9, 2022

  Spanish democratic transition (1975 – 1982)

  The Spanish democratic transition was a watershed moment for Spanish lesbians. For the first time in Spanish history, lesbians in the country could claim their own cultural, social, political and historical identity independent of men, government erasure and the Church and state being the sole arbitrators of female sexuality. This period would not be without…
• 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…
• January 3, 2022

  Second Spanish Republic and the Spanish Civil War (1931 – 1939)

  The Second Republic created an opening for Spanish women, with laws changing to give women more rights, including the right to run for political office, to vote and to get a divorce.
• December 11, 2021

  Ruta de Orgullo: History of Lesbians at Pride

  This is a three-part piece. The first is a history of lesbian involvement in Pride in Spain. It is not comprehensive, as Spain is a country of 44 million and that is a lot of territory to cover.  The best sources available discuss Pride events in Madrid, in part because the march is the most…