Tag: Zaragoza

• 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…
• September 2, 2022

  A history of Pride in Logroño

              Pride, known as Orgullo in Spanish, appears to have first been celebrated in Logroño in 1981, around four years after the first recognized homosexual march took place in Barcelona and around ten years after the first lesbian led march in honor of Christopher Street Liberation Day took place in Madrid.[1]  That year, Asociación Feminista…
• 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…
• 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…
• June 26, 2022

  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…
• February 3, 2022

  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…
• January 25, 2022

  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 –…
• 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 3, 2022

  Francoist Spain (1938 – 1975)

  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…