Tag: United States
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Socialist government of José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero (2004 – 2011)
Lesbian life continued to have moments of difficulty across Spain. The financial crisis reduced resources. Attacks on lesbians happened around Spain, and got local and national media attention. Lesbians faced identity issues when they had children. Rural lesbians continued to have move to big cities to avoid discrimination or travel to big cities to have social opportunities. In big cities, lesbians who did not fit the traditional mold of women in Spanish society faced their own problems and stigmatization. Lesbian social opportunities also had issues, with lesbian bars struggling to stay open.
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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 […]
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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. […]