June 28, 2009, marks a tone the history of civil rights, one which Hispanics have played a key role. On that date 1969, the gay rights movement galvanized New York’s Greenwich Village to stage what is now known as the Stonewall rts. Here we take a look back at the role Hispanics played, how far we’ve e, and how far we still have to go.
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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?
The rights of gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr people have taken centre stage ahead of Spa's July 23 natnal electn. * spanish gay rights *
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.
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 *
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.
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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.
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.
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. * spanish gay rights *
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.