In Spain, 88% of the populations agree with the acceptances of homosexuals in the society (Pew Research Center, 2013). Nowadays, people say Spain as most LGBT friendly country, and in, fact, it is friendly. In previous posts, the time period was quiet new (Taiwan), so in this post, the time period would be as close as 1980s.
Even though the post is going to be around 1980s, Spain has a long history oh LGBT since 1931. This article shows detailed explanations with each timeline, it is called “LGBT in Spain”. Unfortunately, the date of this website and the author is not shown. From the timeline, in 1980, there was an event that made Chueca to be a LGBT friendly city.
This item is important because it is impossible to talk about all the histories of Spain about LGBT, however, this timeline saved the time of reading other events that happened in Spain at different time periods. In addition, the timeline could also show how busy the society was at each time. frame.
“A quién le importa” by Alaska y Dinarama (1986)
Alaska y Dinarama is a Spanish band, after released the song, it became one of the representative songs of the LGBT community from Spain. Since the song is asking questions of who cares to be different from others, and the lyric has a strong voice of being who they are, so it was recognized as an anthem of LGBT community.
It is important in the archive project because among many Latin LGBT musicians, they were the only Spanish musicians and made a significant hit song in the LGBT community. In the lyrics, it was encouraging the lives of LGBT people in Spain, and telling the audiences to lived strong as much as possible. Moreover, most of my previous posts are related to movie or drama, so this could be a good contrast of pop cultures between South Korea, Taiwan and Spain.
This is an another history article written by Theresa Pyrce, called “Homosexuality’s History and Cultural Impact in Spain” in 2016. It has a detail history of LGBT community in Spain, and it talked about time period around 1975~1979, and 2005, which is quiet close to the time range of what this post wants to have.
It is important in the archive project is because in this time range, it can compare the different movements happened with the history of Taiwan and Japan. Also it has more details of history in Spain, so it can provide more deeper knowledge of the history to the audiences. Spain is a LGBT friendly country, but it was not necessary friendly from the past time, and this article successfully explained how Spain became a LGBT friendly country.