Comedy, the refuge of gays Fran-era ce | EurekAlert!

Contents:

• GAY VICTIMS OF FRAN ERA TO W PENSATN
• BOB POP, SOBRE LOS MOR QUE FRAN ERA GAY: "UTILIZAN LA SUPUTA HOMOSEXUALIDAD OCULTA LA GENTE MALVADA PARA JTIFIRL"
• JAM FRAN SAYS HE'S 'A LTLE GAY'
• GAYS PERSECUTED BY FRAN LOSE CRIMAL STAT AT LAST
• COMEDY, THE REFUGE OF GAYS FRAN-ERA CEMA
• HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: ANTI-GAY LAWS PROMOTE VLENCE, DISCRIMATN ST. VCENT

GAY VICTIMS OF FRAN ERA TO W PENSATN

: un psianalista habla "su ponente homo" Las dudas sobre la paternidad Carmenca valieron al programa Risto Meji para hablar también sobre la sexualidad Fran.

Y que Francis Martínez, el psianalista que realizó en 1977 las grabacn en el entorno cerno l dictador, ha clarado, según s propias palabras, que el dictador tenía "un ponente homo". Falmente, Martínez cía que dos soldados que cidieron n Fran se llegaron a plantear si el udillo era "homosexual".

BOB POP, SOBRE LOS MOR QUE FRAN ERA GAY: "UTILIZAN LA SUPUTA HOMOSEXUALIDAD OCULTA LA GENTE MALVADA PARA JTIFIRL"

El historiador Daniel Eisenberg, en su artículo para Lbian and Gay Studi Newsletter, noviembre 1992, exponía lo siguiente: "El so la bisexualidad Francis Fran, un general brillante que gobernó España o dictador reprivo durante si 40 años, trigante". Tenía una guardia moris personal, el primer gobernante pañol en tener una s el (gay) Enrique IV en el siglo XV, e hizo rtrar el palac moris (Alcázar) Sevilla en plena Guerra Civil", añadía Eisenberg, que se atrevía en su obra a dar el nombre uno s suputos amant. En vars artículos prensa, se rege amás cómo los mor sobre la suputa homosexualidad l tirano taba en bo clo su prop ejérco.

In the dyg days of General Francis Fran's dictatorship, Antoni Ruiz found out for himself what thoands of others had already suffered for beg gay. Now, 31 years later, Mr Ruiz and a dwdlg band of others who suffered General Fran's thls reprsn of homosexuals, may fally be offered pensatn by the, then jt 17, om Valencia, eastern Spa, told his mother he was homosexual and his fay sought advice om a nun.

JAM FRAN SAYS HE'S 'A LTLE GAY'

Many homosexuals were prevented om workg unr the Fran dictatorship bee of their "crimal" rerds, meang they never ntributed enough money to receive more than the mimum pensn. "This is not jt about enomic pensatn but rememberg homosexuals who suffered unr unjt and dictatorial laws, " he add. Durg Fran's homophobic dictatorship, gays were jailed or locked up sister mental stutns known as "rrectn mps".

Wh echo of the Nazi atroci agast gays, they were given electric shocks the belief that this would rid them of their homosexual urg. As part of their natnalist, Catholic ials, the Fran regime and s Falangist supporters nsired homosexuals a threat to the "macho" Spanish male. The most famo gay man killed by the regime was the poet and playwright Feri Garcia Lor, who wrote Blood Weddg and The Hoe of Bernarda Alba.

GAYS PERSECUTED BY FRAN LOSE CRIMAL STAT AT LAST

Homosexuals, almost all of them men, were packed off to mental hospals, where some were given electric-shock therapy. The historian Pablo Fuent said: "It is not unmon to hear homosexuals om the upper class and the aristocracy speak about the Fran perd as a great time. Many gay people who suffered at the hands of the regime are reluctant to raise the issue bee of the horrors brgs back or bee they still fear society's attus.

And although thoands of polil and other prisoners were pardoned 1976, gay people were ma to serve their sentenc. The prent Socialist ernment legalised same-sex weddgs and gay adoptn 2005, agast opposn om the nservative opposn and the Roman Catholic Church.

Pedro Zerolo, print of Spa's Feratn of Gays and Lbians, said: "What we want is a claratn of moral rehabilatn for those people who had part of their liv stolen by the state.

COMEDY, THE REFUGE OF GAYS FRAN-ERA CEMA

Lejos zanjar las dudas sobre su sexualidad, Bordiú nsiguió crear aún más mister sobre las timidas l Generalí cierto que son muy pos los historiador y perdistas que se han atrevido a plasmar blan sobre negro s teorías sobre la sexualidad l dictador pe a que en ter da vez son más los foros que se cutnan si Fran era homosexual, bisexual, monórquido o impotente. Francis Martínez, el psianalista que entrevistó a la faia l dictador, ha revelado una serie aspectos la personalidad Francis Fran, llegando clo a poner en duda su orientación sexual: "Tenía un ponente homo", ha exprado.

Tal y o asegura Francis Martínez, dos soldados sospechaban que Fran era "homosexual" ya que pasaba las noch en una “tienda apartada l rto oficial n un bo b, ojos azul que era alemán.

The scriptn remembers the "historil jtice" suffered by homosexual and transgenr people this old prison of the wtern Andalian cy of 's not the first time Gamez had heard about sexual mori imprisoned and mistreated here.

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: ANTI-GAY LAWS PROMOTE VLENCE, DISCRIMATN ST. VCENT

Historians have nclud that the dictatorship had two "specialised" prisons for those people nvicted unr s homophobic legislatn: one Huelva and one Badajoz, at the Portugue borr, the wtern regn of Ruiz, born 1958 a small town the eastern provce of Valencia, was among them. Ruiz and fellow activists also want enomic reparatns for the LGBTI (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, tersex) victims of the two laws that crimalised this mory between 1954 and is not an easy procs, as the victim needs to unrgo an dividual judicial procs.