Tag: Pacifico

• May 21, 2023

  Lesbians and the [Spanish] Inquisition in Madrid

  

  While ample documentation exists in some Inquisition Tribunals related to lesbians, comparatively little exists in relation to Madrid. The reasons for this are a bit unclear, with María Jesús Torquemada, a professor in the Departamento de Historia del Derecho y las Instituciones at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, offering a few explanations related to her work…
• March 15, 2023

  History of Pride in Madrid: Socialist government of Felipe González (1982 – 1996)

  

  Spain held general elections on 28 October 1982, ushering in a government run by PSOE’s Felipe González that lasted until the party was voted out in the 1996 elections. The party’s election following a mainstream modern social democratic campaign is widely considered to be the end of the democratic transition period, ushering in a new…
• March 15, 2023

  History of Pride in Madrid: Spanish democratic transition (1975 – 1982)

  The early Democratic Transition activists faced a series of challenges. Early media discussion in the very immediate post-Franco period still saw homosexuality as a medical or psychological issue. If the media viewed homosexuals as having any rights limited in their reporting as a result of the current laws, it was the basic human rights of…