October 10 | 8:00 p.m.
Free entry until capacity is reached
In this dialogue, the queer history of Spain will be addressed through the perspective of two key authors in the dissemination of LGTBIQA+ history in the country: Mikel Herrán, author of Sodomites, vagabonds and thugs: History of Spain deviated from Atapuerca to Chueca, and Cristina Domenech, author of Ladies who got stuck a long time ago.
The conversation will explore the history of LGTBIQA+ people in Spain and in other contexts, ranging from historical figures hidden in prehistory to the present day. It will be discussed how these communities challenged social and sexual norms over time, with special emphasis on the historical invisibility of this group, and how both authors have worked to recover them from a contemporary, rigorous and entertaining perspective.
This dialogue will be an opportunity to reflect on the evolution of sexual and gender identities, as well as how queer history has been systematically erased or distorted until recently. In addition, it will allow you to discover fascinating stories of resistance, love and the support networks woven around sexual dissidence.
An entertaining LGTBIQ+ story from Spain that confronts hoaxes and misinformation through rigor and sources. Did you know that medieval Islam considered lesbianism a form of higher love? Do you know Estebanía de Valdaracete, the intersex man who challenged several officials of Charles V to a duel and won them all? Did you have any idea that one of the oldest joint burials of two men is documented in the Iberian Peninsula more than 3,500 years ago?
This is a story of deviants: the faggot, the lesbian, the sodomite, the invert, the transvestite, the hermaphrodite…; those who challenged the norm of desire, gender or sex. You could say that it is the LGTBIQ+ history of Spain since long before those acronyms or even Spain existed. On this journey, which begins in Prehistory and takes us to the present day, we will meet those who do not usually appear in books: the deviants who lived, flouted the rules and wove networks and spaces of their own.
«It is said that we are a danger to the nation, to the State, to society, to marriage, to men, women and children. It is said that we are a lobby that seeks to appropriate series and movies, that we are a modern invention, an occurrence of idle young people or, worse still, the result of an agenda. And yet, when we look back in time, in one way or another, we have always been there.
Where are the lesbians in history?
Women who rebelled against marriage and broke the rules of etiquette. Rebels, geniuses, decadents, artists… Ladies who, despite all the difficulties of their time, dared to express their sexuality and challenge their time.
This book, which covers the period from the 17th century to the 20th century, explores the public and private history of these fascinating women who loved others – Anne Seymour Damer, Anne Lister and Josephine Baker, among many others – to make visible and bring to light the light a reality that should never have been secret.
Mikel Herrán Subinas. Graduated in archeology from the Complutense University of Madrid and master’s degree in Archeology from the Arab and Islamic world from UCL Qatar, has worked as an archaeologist on various projects in Qatar and Morocco. PhD from the University of Leicester where he completed his thesis on study of domestic space in al-Andalus, and domestic space and practices as spaces of Islamization. He also combines his research work with dissemination in media such as radio (Las Tardes RNE) and television (El Condensador de Fluzo) as well as on social networks through the PutoMikel channel.
Cristina Domenech was born in 1987 in Malaga. Graduated in English Studies, she completed a master’s degree in the same discipline at the University of Malaga and is currently a doctoral student. In her thesis she analyzes historical literature from a queer perspective. His first book, Ladies who got stuck a long time agobecame a publishing phenomenon with several editions. This was followed illustrious ladieswhich was also a success and garnered excellent reviews. More ladies who got screwed a long time ago is the continuation of her research and dissemination work on the lives of different women who were silenced by history due to their sexual orientation.