Loved the video!! Glad youtube recommended it to me, never heard about the Festival of Lights and now I need to learn more about it!! I’m from Spain and we have our particular history with queer movement, due to the fact that we were under a fascist dictatorship by the time Stonewall took place and queer protests started all over the world. There was this single place in Torremolinos, Málaga, called Pasaje Begoña, where queer people started to reunion in a few locals where everyone was welcome and celebrated (Ava Gardner used to frecuent some of them!). Sadly, the night of the 26th of june 1971 (Franco died in 1975), police brutally came in, arresting hundreds of people and closing these locals in the name of “la Ley de vagos y maleantes”, wich means Lazy and Malefactors Law, oppresing the only safe place for queer people in all Spain. When the dictator died, that outrageous law went down and this place slowly came back to be the center of queer life in our country, and it still is nowadays. Torremolinos remembers the suffering of their people and now that we are watching our rights at risk by radical right wing political parties, we really need to take the streets and reclaim our power!!
Loved the video!! Glad youtube recommended it to me, never heard about the Festival of Lights and now I need to learn more about it!!
I’m from Spain and we have our particular history with queer movement, due to the fact that we were under a fascist dictatorship by the time Stonewall took place and queer protests started all over the world. There was this single place in Torremolinos, Málaga, called Pasaje Begoña, where queer people started to reunion in a few locals where everyone was welcome and celebrated (Ava Gardner used to frecuent some of them!). Sadly, the night of the 26th of june 1971 (Franco died in 1975), police brutally came in, arresting hundreds of people and closing these locals in the name of “la Ley de vagos y maleantes”, wich means Lazy and Malefactors Law, oppresing the only safe place for queer people in all Spain. When the dictator died, that outrageous law went down and this place slowly came back to be the center of queer life in our country, and it still is nowadays. Torremolinos remembers the suffering of their people and now that we are watching our rights at risk by radical right wing political parties, we really need to take the streets and reclaim our power!!
i wonder how many police officers on the morality squads had awakenings as a result of their line of work.... 👀