A report om Human Rights Watch lls on the ernment of St. Vcent to overturn lonial-era anti-gay laws that have led to a recent wave of vlence and genr discrimatn on the small Caribbean island.
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
"There is a b of overfocg on my sexualy, both by the straight prs and the gay prs ... why do they re?" * era gay franco *
: 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".
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".
BOB POP, SOBRE LOS MOR QUE FRAN ERA GAY: "UTILIZAN LA SUPUTA HOMOSEXUALIDAD OCULTA LA GENTE MALVADA PARA JTIFIRL"
Spa's parliament yterday pledged to wipe clean the crimal rerds of gays locked up by the former dictator General Francis Fran, and to look at ways to pensate them for the years of torture and imprisonment. * era gay franco *
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.
GAYS PERSECUTED BY FRAN LOSE CRIMAL STAT AT LAST
As part of their natnalist, Catholic ials, the Fran regime and s Falangist supporters nsired homosexuals a threat to the "macho" Spanish male.
COMEDY, THE REFUGE OF GAYS FRAN-ERA CEMA
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.
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: ANTI-GAY LAWS PROMOTE VLENCE, DISCRIMATN ST. VCENT
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.