Tag: Valladolid

• May 21, 2023

  Lesbians and the Inquisition

  

                The Christian Church in Spain had long been interested in the history of homosexual acts, dating back to a Church Council held from 305 to 306 in Elvira, modern day Granada, though the focus was almost exclusively on men. Among other issues, the council discussed the issue of sodomy. It was one of the…
• May 21, 2023

  Lesbians and the [Spanish] Inquisition in Madrid

  

  While ample documentation exists in some Inquisition Tribunals related to lesbians, comparatively little exists in relation to Madrid. The reasons for this are a bit unclear, with María Jesús Torquemada, a professor in the Departamento de Historia del Derecho y las Instituciones at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, offering a few explanations related to her work…
• August 21, 2022

  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…
• August 21, 2022

  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…
• August 17, 2022

  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…
• February 18, 2022

  Mariano Rajoy and Pedro Sánchez eras: Bollero feminism and LGTB intersections with lesbianism and abolitionist feminism

  Lesbian political goals independent from the broader feminist movement and independent of the LGTB collective largely disappeared in this period, with a few exceptions focused around family rights.
• 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 26, 2021

  2021 Spanish lesbian year in review

  This is a review of 2021 Spanish lesbian history. Likely not complete.  No history ever is.  Lack of completeness has two major reasons.  First, there are a number of stories that likely involved lesbians but lesbians didn’t appear to be mentioned other than as part of larger groups with no specific identity as lesbians.  This…