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• GAY BATHHOE EROS TO OPEN S NEW TENRLO LOTN FOR PRI WEEKEND
• HELP A GAY SPORTS FAN AFFORD HIS HOSPAL BILLS AS HE REVERS OM A DRIVE-BY SHOOTG
• FRANCIS LOPEZ GAY
• GAYS PERSECUTED BY FRAN LOSE CRIMAL STAT AT LAST
• FRANCIS LóPEZ GAY
• FRANCIS LOPEZ GAY
• A LAT EXPERT’S ODYSSEY, FROM THE VATIN TO THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
• A LAT EXPERT’S ODYSSEY, FROM THE VATIN TO THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
• FRANCIS LóPEZ GAY

GAY BATHHOE EROS TO OPEN S NEW TENRLO LOTN FOR PRI WEEKEND

When the 30-year-old bathhoe and sna Eros left ’s old home on Market Street near the Castro December 2021, the cy's only remag gay sex club said they had a new home led up. Last weekend, a gay Bay Area sports fan was the victim of a sensels drive-by shootg and his iends have set up a Gofundme to help as he starts the long road to revery. A passnate baseball enthiast, Chavez-Lopez is a member of the Gay San Francis Giants Facebook Group.

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.

HELP A GAY SPORTS FAN AFFORD HIS HOSPAL BILLS AS HE REVERS OM A DRIVE-BY SHOOTG

Thoands of homosexuals were jailed, put mps or locked up mental stutns unr Fran's homophobic dictatorship, which lasted for 40 years until his ath terms of up to three years were imposed unr laws verg "public sndal" or "social danger". Homosexuals, almost all of them men, were packed off to mental hospals where some were given electric shock. Yterday's cisn means that sentenc for homosexualy will be taken off police fil and the parliament will seek a way to redrs the damage of those mandg pensatn is Anton Ruiz, om the eastern cy of Valencia, who was sent to prison at 17 the dyg days of the Fran regime after he told his mother that he was gay and she asked a nun for advice.

"Five years ago, when stopped by police officers who checked his inty over the rad, he disvered that his homosexualy was still registered on a police file. At least 1, 000 gays were jailed durg the last of Fran's le. "It is not unmon to hear homosexuals om the upper class and the aristocracy speak about the Fran perd as a great time.

When thoands of polil and other prisoners were pardoned the followg year, homosexuals were left to serve out their sentenc. They uld still be jailed until 1979 by the urts unr the law on so-lled "social dangers and rehabilatn" Zerolo, print of Spa's Feratn of Gays and Lbians, weled parliament's cisn but hoped more would be done.

FRANCIS LOPEZ GAY

"What we want is a claratn of moral rehabilatn for those people who had part of their liv stolen by the state, " he Fran regime and s Falangist supporters nsired homosexuals a threat to their ial of a "macho" Spanish male. "Any effemate or trovert who sults the movement will be killed like a dog, " General Queipo l Llano, Fran's favoure broadster, once the most proment homosexuals killed by the regime was the leftwg poet and playwright Feri Garcia Lor, whose wrgs were nsired dangeroly the end of Fran's regime, homosexualy was creasgly viewed as an illns rather than a crime. "Homosexuals should be seen more as sick people than as crimals.

GAYS PERSECUTED BY FRAN LOSE CRIMAL STAT AT LAST

But the law should still prevent them proselytisg schools, sports clubs and army barracks, " one psychologist, Lopez Ibor, wrote nservative People's party of the current prime mister, José Maria Aznar, voted yterday agast an amendment that would have tomatilly given fancial pensatn to former gay prisoners, but agreed a mtee should study the recent years parliament has pensated former polil prisoners and anti-Fran guerrilla fighters. ” reprents somethg new to mastream flamen dienc: a ank and joyful exprsn of gay Liñán and his pany, Jerez, Spa: om left, Jonatan Miró, Hugo López, Mr. Liñán, who is gay, dancg has bee a way to exprs who he is.

“I n dance wh the same force, or more, than any man” she Mola is a lbian a field which female homosexualy is still mostly unr the radar. But unr the dictatorship of Francis Fran, drag went unrground until the 1960s, when began to make a eback, “ the sphere of gay parti and shows, exclively for cross-drsg performers. The flamen cric Estela Zatania said an email that the late years of Fran’s le and for a time after, Spa had a law — Ley la Peligrosidad Social (or law of social endangerment) — that rulted persecutn and jail for immoral behavr, and which was ed maly to target homosexuals.

Fifteen years have passed sce beme one of the first untri the world to legalize gay marriage, spe the strong opposn of the Roman Catholic Church. Liñán may be a celebrated and award-wng flamen artist, but he said he and his dancers have been subjected to homophobic tnts both the profsn and onle.

FRANCIS LóPEZ GAY

Ford, a transgenr woman, had been servg as terim executive director of the San Francis Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr Pri Celebratn Commtee sce Febary 2022, after then-executive director Fred Lopez, a gay man, rigned sudnly, as the Bay Area Reporter ntemporaneoly reported. Nguyen Pham, a gay man who is print of SF Pri's board of directors, stated that the group is grateful for Ford.

FRANCIS LOPEZ GAY

” Cipriano for The New York TimPublished June 18, 2021Updated June 22, 2021PALERMO, Italy — Years after he lost his dream job the Vatin’s Lat partment, left the prithood, me out as gay, went public wh sensatnal acunts of rampant sex among clergy Rome and revented himself as a gay rights activist and journalist wh a lumn Lat, Franc Lepore returned to the Vatin to discs a new November, Mr. His searg Vatin experience led to the ont l of the gay rights movement as the edor of and, this month, the thor of “The Crime of Giarre, ” a book vtigatg the s-old murr of a Sicilian uple that helped spark Italy’s gay rights Cipriano for The New York TimAnd his ep knowledge of the church led to articl an anti-populist and proudly elist publitn, Lkita, where he also has a general tert daily lumn wrten Lat. Cipriano for The New York TimWhen he reached Rome 2002 he got an entirely different tn, he said, a world of sexually active gay prits.

A LAT EXPERT’S ODYSSEY, FROM THE VATIN TO THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

” In a se of self-sabotage, he vised gay pri s and watched pornography on his office puter. He had a “double g out” to his parents, about leavg the prithood and beg gay, and they didn’t talk to him for years.

Lepore threw himself to activism for gay rights. Lepore’s timate that 80 percent of the Vatin staff are gay ma a that year, Ivan Slfarotto, a polician who is now an unrsecretary Italy’s Interr Mistry, told the new edor of Lkita about a guy who knew everythg about the Vatin. MARCO-GARCÍA, Clàudia; LÓPEZ-GAY, Anton; SOLANA-SOLANA, Miguel (2020) “Cicl ls barris i ls habants.

A LAT EXPERT’S ODYSSEY, FROM THE VATIN TO THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

LÓPEZ-GAY, Anton; ANDÚJAR, Andrea (2020) “Gentrifición y mbs socmográfis en los barrs Barcelona y Madrid: una mirada a través los flujos migrators y rincial”. Miguel; ORTIZ GUITART, Anna; LÓPEZ GAY, Anton (2020) “«Me tán echando mi sa». LÓPEZ‐GAY, Anton; SALVATI, Lu (2020) “Polycentric velopment and lol fertily metropolan regns: An empiril analysis for Barcelona, Spa”.

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LÓPEZ GAY, Anton; SALES FAVÀ, Joan (2020) La gentrifició a la ciutat Barcelona s d'una perspectiva gènere: aproximació quantativa. LÓPEZ-GAY, Anton; ANDÚJAR-LLOSA, Andrea; SALVATI, Lu (2020) “Rintial Mobily, Gentrifitn and Neighborhood Change Spanish Ci: A Post-Crisis Perspective”.