Tag: Palencia
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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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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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Hapsburg Spain (1516 – 1700)
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…