Tag: Sevilla
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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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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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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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History of Lesbian Visibility Day in Spain
Preface: This is the last section of mostly last chapter of the book I am working on with the overview of lesbian history across the whole of Spain. The more modern stuff is a lot more challenging than the historic stuff because there isn’t the same type of summary of challenges but rather looking at […]
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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 places like the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, France and Australia. This shift in nominal earlier inclusiveness would have repercussions throughout this period and to the present day.
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Felipe González: 1989 and 1993: Homosexual and trans rights activism
Background: This is part of the rewrite of the background text for the region specific lesbian travel guide. It focuses on lesbian intersections with the homosexual rights activist movement during the Felipe González government. As this was written, some info intended for this section got moved to previous sections already posted here. Kind of oops. […]
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Socialist government of Felipe González: 1982 and 1986: Literary and cultural life, popular culture depictions
This period saw the publication of two of three most important firsthand accounts in novel form on upper-class lesbian life during the Second Republic period. The first was by Rosa Chacel and the second was by Elena Fortún. The third book by Victorina Duran, Así es, was existed in Duran’s archives but would not be published until 2018 and was not circulating underground.
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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 its struggles to reclaim what the Dictatorship had so thoroughly stripped from Spanish lesbians.
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