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Its more current usage in Spain dates to the 19th century, where it began to be used to mean lesbians in a more modern sense. [11] [8] Virago entered the Spanish vocabulary by 1160, derived from a Latin word meaning heroine. In 1607, the word was defined in a Spanish-French dictionary as meaning, "virtuous woman who does man's things".
In realist literature, starting in the last third of the 19th century and for much of the 20th, homosexuality was seen in a negative light. [11] This was influenced by the theses of Italian positivism (Cesare Lombroso considered that homosexuality led to crime), [12] French degeneration (in authors such as Bénédict Morel, Valentin Magnan— [13] who rejected homosexuality because its spread ...
Rocío González of Fundación Triángulo said that feminists feared the "contagion of stigma" and disassociated themselves from lesbians. [16] Spanish lesbians in this period tend to be involved in party politics with Izquierda Unida (United Left) or PSOE. Lesbians were likely to be involved in these parties less because the parties supported ...
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer rights in Spain rank among the highest in the world, having undergone significant advancements within recent decades. [1] [2] Among ancient Romans in Spain, sexual interaction between men was viewed as commonplace, [3] but a law against homosexuality was promulgated by Christian emperors Constantius II and Constans, and Roman moral norms underwent ...
By the time of the start of the González government, the lesbian and gay community had rejected the use of the word homosexual as part of their identity. They believed the word was imposed on the, by outsiders and used to define them medically and that it had a derogatory meaning in Spanish society. Lesbian and gay were used instead.
[148] While the main idea of political lesbianism is to be separate from men, this does not necessarily mean that political lesbians have to sleep with women; some choose to be celibate or identify as asexual. The Leeds Revolutionary Feminist Group definition of a political lesbian is "a woman identified woman who does not fuck men".
A Spanish literary tradition for lesbians would not start until the end of Francoism. [11] [39] The most significant piece of Spanish lesbian literature in this period was Oculto sendero by Elena Fortún, which while never officially published was circulating by 1945 and told the fictionalized account of a Spanish lesbian in exile. [45] [46]
693 – In Iberia, Visigothic ruler Egica of Hispania and Septimania, demanded that a Church council confront the occurrence of homosexuality in the Kingdom. The Sixteenth Council of Toledo issued a statement in response, which was adopted by Egica, stating that homosexual acts be punished by castration, exclusion from Communion, hair shearing, one hundred stripes of the lash, and banishment ...