Tag: United Kingdom

• March 30, 2023

  Spanish communists intersections with lesbians (women + LGTB)

  This is a quick history of Partido Comunista’s intersections with lesbians, and to a lesser extent the broader LGTB movement in Spain since the party’s founding in 1921 by the youth movement inside PSOE.  This was cobbled together from existing material in other pieces, with some quickly written text for additional context.  It is possible…
• 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…
• June 21, 2022

  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…
• February 17, 2022

  Mariano Rajoy and Pedro Sánchez eras: Everyday life, societal perception and media depictions

  Background: This is the last era of the rewrite of the background information. It includes the Pedro Sanchez period up to more or less March 2020 when the pandemic began as it needs an actual ending point. Hoping to get this period finished writing this month and then doing the Amazon self-publishing thing. Everyday life,…
• January 29, 2022

  Lesbiana and its inclusion of bisexual women in a Spanish context

  There is a question, or probably more accurately, statements of facts on Twitter around whether or not lesbian as a term and lesbian as an identity is trans inclusive, and whether or not there is such a thing as bi lesbians, given especially that lesbian has roots with the island of Lesbos and that Sappho…
• January 21, 2022

  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…
• January 16, 2022

  Felipe González: 1982 and 1986: AIDS / HIV and STIs, Orgullo

  The Felipe González period contains the first of four waves of activism as it relates or does not actually relate to lesbians and their intersections with HIV / AIDS and STIs more generally.
• January 16, 2022

  Felipe González: 1982 and 1986: Homosexual 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.…
• January 3, 2022

  Second Spanish Republic and the Spanish Civil War (1931 – 1939)

  The Second Republic created an opening for Spanish women, with laws changing to give women more rights, including the right to run for political office, to vote and to get a divorce.