Tag: Toledo

• August 20, 2022

  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…
• January 13, 2022

  Felipe González: 1989 and 1993: Marriage equality

  In the early and mid-1990s, the homosexual rights activists generally did not see an immediate need for same-sex marriage. It was viewed as a more long-term goal.
• December 30, 2021

  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…
• December 29, 2021

  Roman and Gothic Hispania (200 – 711)

  Lesbians have always been in Spain; their history, the history of women with exclusive sexual and romantic attraction to other women, of women who had sex with other women, is as old as Spain itself and likely pre-dates the first references to them in Roman Spanish sources.  In its earliest documented periods, the history of…