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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".
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.
In November 2009, the Asociación por la Recuperación de la Memorioa Histórica launched a campaign to try to get the Spanish Royal Academy of Language (RAE) to change dictionary definition around the words marriage to make them more inclusive and less pejorative. [59] They had already succeeded with similar efforts with Royal Galician Academy ...
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 ...
Understanding Francoist imposed definitions of female sexuality is critical to understanding modern Spanish female sexuality, especially as it relates to macho behavior and women's expected responses to it. Female bodies were stripped of their physicality and the regime did everything in their power to desexualize them.
Johns Hopkins University removed an online glossary of LGBTQ terms this week after its definition of the word "lesbian" used the term "non-men" to refer to women and some nonbinary people and ...
In her new book, “Unsuitable: A History of Lesbian Fashion,” historian Eleanor Medhurst documents the course of lesbian fashion, which she said is frequently determined by politics, and how it ...
Lesbians in the Second Spanish Republic and Civil War period were doubly discriminated against, as a result of their gender and sexual practices. Prior to the Second Republic, lesbians in Spain were largely ignored, eclipsed by gay men. They faced discrimination as they challenged definitions around what it meant to be a woman.