Tag: Madrid
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Acrópoli, tenemos un problema: Issues with survey design
Acrópoli, tenemos un problema. Acrópoli is currently undertaking a survey of LGTB violence and hate crimes in the Comunidad de Madrid by surveying members of the Comunidad de Madrid, doing outreach for survey completion Twitter and Facebook. The survey results will almost certainly be used to inform decision making by the Comunidad de Madrid as […]
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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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A history of GYLDA, La Rioja’s first LGTB rights organization
This is part of the work on this blog about the history of lesbians in La Rioja. There was a lot of information about GYLDA in La Rioja and its intersections with lesbian issues in the region that it made sense to write a separate history of the organization and include it in the section […]
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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 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 […]
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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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The Stonewall Uprising and Spain
What does Stonewall mean to Spain and what are similar events that have taken place in Spain that resonate like Stonewall? Stonewall and Spain Introduction Every year around Pride in Spain, the Stonewall riots, which took place over several non-consecutive days after a police raid of the Stonewall Club in New York City[1], are brought […]
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A brief history of AIDS in La Rioja and Spain from a lesbian perspective
This article looks at the history of AIDS from a lesbian perspective in La Rioja and Spain more broadly as part of an overall background to understanding the landscape for lesbians in La Rioja, especially as it pertains to LGTB activism and sexual health to try to provide a narrative history which can be used to understand the broader situation for lesbians and to try to uncover some of the hidden lesbian history in the region.
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Lesbian intersections with transwomen
This is not written in a coherent manner. Rather, this is a summary written by looking through my various histories and copying and pasting the relevant bits of intersectional history. I did this at the request of someone who was interested in knowing when the conflict between L (and maybe G and B) became much […]
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Butch and femme history
A lesbian subculture was in place by the start of the Primo de Rivera dictatorship. Lesbians tended to be divided into one of two groups, flappers imitated Carlota, from the novel Sab or butch lesbians with mannish manners. The flapper subset identified as European women, often worked outside the home where the found a degree of personal freedom, and were portrayed by outsiders as being almost Grecian in appearance.
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