The rights of gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr people have taken centre stage ahead of Spa's July 23 natnal electn. Opn polls predict Alberto Nunez Feijoo's nservative People's Party (PP) will w the electn after four years of aln ernment by Prime Mister Pedro Sanchez's Socialists and the leftist Unidas Pomos. But Feijoo would likely need the support of the far-right Vox party to form a ernment.
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LGBT Rights Spa: homosexualy, gay marriage, gay adoptn, servg the ary, sexual orientatn discrimatn protectn, changg legal genr, donatg blood, age of nsent, and more. * spanish gay rights *
HistoryHomosexual activy Spa? Homosexual activy Spa is In 1979 Adolfo Suárez Government reversed the prev prohibns on same sex activy. Illegal (imprisonment as punishment)The Vagrants and Common Delquents Law (Ley Vagos y Maleant) was modified unr the regime of Francis Fran to prohib homosexual acts, wh a penalty of imprisonment.
The rights of gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr people have taken centre stage ahead of Spa's July 23 natnal electn. * spanish gay rights *
Current statSce Jul 3, 2005Legal In July of 2005, Spa beme the third untry the world to legalize gay marriage, followg the Netherlands and Belgium. Informatn regardg blood donatn by MSM durg the Fran dictatorship is unknown, but was probably outlawed along wh the practice of homosexualy. Between 1931 and 1936 Spa was erned by a republin system known as the Send Republic, which saw women ga more rights unr the law and saw homosexualy taken out of the Spanish Crimal Co 1932.
Feri Garcia Lor, the famo Spanish poet who explored the taboo topics of classism and homoeroticism his works, was killed 1936 durg the Spanish Civil War. Unr Fran's dictatorship, homosexualy was ma illegal through multiple natnal laws and cre, and LGBTQ+ people were sent to ternment mps, jailed, or killed.
The Spanish documentary 'Mama, soy gay' (Mom, I'm Gay), giv an overview of the stggle for LGBTQ+ rights Spa over the past forty years. After Fran's ath and the end of the dictatorship 1975, homosexualy remaed illegal until the ernment of the Kgdom of Spa overturned this law 1979.
Attacks by the far-right Vox party on lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) rights are ttg years of polil nsens on the issue Spa, which 2005 beme only the third untry the world to allow same-sex marriage. * spanish gay rights *
One of the most famo exampl of the unrground muni durg the era of opprsn was ‘El Comodín’, the first nightclub and baret wh a marked homosexual atmosphere and open to anyone om the public Spa, opened 1957. It is a cur meetg and provotive reference pot the town of Sg, loted the provce of Barcelona, where the first monument agast homophobia was erected 2006.
The astal town of Sg is one of the most popular plac for gay people bee they n enjoy an atmosphere of equaly every though the history of LGBTQ+ rights often foc on the stggle for equal rights for men who love men, the stctural opprsn of cis and trans women, lbian women and queer women is often not highlighted as much or even mimised. It ntas statements om activists who led the stggle and ntue to do so 1981, an visible enemy that cimated dg addicts and homosexuals was quietly claimg victims. The documentary vers the last forty years of LGBTQ+ history Spa and foc on the impact that the AIDS had Spa and still has relatn to the gay muny, as well as the advanc healthre to treat HIV patients.
It ntas first-hand acunts om var people who offer their opns and experienc of the 1988, homosexual unns were regnised through civil partnerships Catalonia, and 2001, facto same-sex unns were approved Madrid.
Explore our gay travel gui to Spa featurg LGBTQ+ safety tips, gay rights , top ci & attractns, where to stay and more! * spanish gay rights *
On 21/11/1995, lbians and homosexuals hijacked the Civil Registry of Madrid bee they wanted to get married and nsolidate the rights that already existed society. REUTERS/Serg Perez Acquire Licensg RightsSummaryPolls suggt right-wg parti will w Spa electnConservativ may form aln wh far-rightLGBTQ+ activists fear a roll back of their rightsMADRID, July 17 (Thomson Rters Foundatn) - The rights of gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr people have taken centre stage ahead of Spa's July 23 natnal electn.
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MADRID (Rters) - Attacks by the far-right Vox party on lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) rights are ttg years of polil nsens on the issue Spa, which 2005 beme only the third untry the world to allow same-sex PHOTO: Santiago Abasl, lear of far-right party VOX, attends the first ssn of parliament followg a general electn Madrid, Spa, May 21, 2019. Bernat Armangue/File PhotoIn the mpaign for this Sunday’s lol, regnal and EU electns, Vox has pledged to curtail gay pri paras, heaped ridicule on diversy lsons wants to scrap schools and has even drawn parallels between homosexualy and natnalist, anti-immigratn Vox won about 10 percent of the vot a natnal electn last month to bee the first far-right party wh a signifint number of lawmakers sce the ath of dictator Francis Fran now hop to enhance s clout Sunday’s new batch of electns, and s hunt for vot has shifted the foc of s attacks away om Catalonia’s pennce drive and on to the LGBT the 2005 approval of the same-sex marriage bill by the parti of the left, center-left and center-right, even the ma nservative People’s Party (PP) which vehemently opposed has changed tack, approvg var bills fense of LGBT rights.