Within the framework of the first LGBTIAQ+ History Month organized on the peninsula, we gathered to reconstruct the human geography of our city through the memories, resistances and repressions of dissident Madrileños throughout history.

From a roundtable discussion with speakers from both academia and activism, we will explore the lives of the gay men, queers, lesbians, and trans people who have walked the streets of the capital before us. Together, we will remember all those lives that have been excluded from state historical narratives to make visible the repressive structures that have silenced certain realities, while celebrating the networks of affection and community that have so often also made survival into life, and the margins into home.

Let's tell, experience, and reclaim their stories, to better understand the past and be better prepared to face the challenges that still exist today for those who live outside the norm. Come (re)make history with us.

Program
 

Friday, February 7 - Ramón Gómez de la Serna Room

18:30-19:00 p.m. Institutional presentation of LGBTIAQ+ History Month

Screening of presentation videos from other committees of LGBTIAQ+ History Month: United States – Rodney Wilson; United Kingdom – Sue Sanders; Cuba and Canada – Alessio Ponzio  

Presentation of the program of activities in the Spanish State: Galicia, Valencia and Murcia [others to be confirmed]. 

19:00-20:00 p.m. Colloquium: DISSIDENT MADRID(S) - LGBTIAQ+ Memories, Repressions, and Dissidences in the History of Madrid. With Mónica Morado, Paula Villanueva, Serafín Fernández, and Lucas Platero. Moderated by Giulia Quaggio.

Saturday, February 22 - Valle Inclán Hall

10:00 - 11:00h. Performance. Broken Intimacy: File 037 – [Carlos Munera and Moisés Fernández]: This proposal will stage a file from the archive of Vagrants and Delinquents of the city of Madrid to reflect on the limits of intimacy for sexual dissidents in the Franco regime.

11:00 - 12:00h. Performance. Practical notes for an investigation Julay – [Anto Rodríguez]: in this artistic proposal, reflections on transvestite art, the personification of the folkloric, the diva and classic transformism will be presented.

12: 30 - 14: 00h. Route of Vagrants and Thugs through Madrid – Outdoor activityel CírculoFree with prior registration (coming soon). 

A guided walking tour through the center of Madrid, exploring some of the symbolic spaces of dissident daily life during the central years of the Franco regime. Each stop on the route is organized around one or more files located in the Madrid City Archives of Vagrants and Delinquents for the period between 1954 and 1970. These cases will serve as a basis for reflecting on various aspects such as Franco's punitive legislation against homosexuality, the situation of lesbian women, the dissident festive spaces, and the role of femininity in homosexual relationships.