forateMito’s, Rosse, Boys, La Naya, Enigma, Missing, Horus, Jardineto, Or i Ferro, Divina or Canibal These are some of the pioneering places in the city of Alicante that he wants to be. meeting point for several LGTBIQ generations in the 80s. Earlier, in 1976, Homosexuality in Front d’Alliberament Valencia (FAHPV), the first organization to lead the fight against sexual literacy in the Community of Valencia and in the early 1980s Moviment d’Alliberament Sexual del País Valencia (MAS-PV) extended to Alicante for organize speeches, exhibitions, dances, projections In Astoria Cinemas or the regular publication of a simple magazine Gay Papers. This story, which does not spread easily in the city, is the guide of the city. LGTBIQ memory in Alicante, The exhibition that can be seen at the Alicante University Museum to make visible the struggle of this movement for the rights and freedoms of this group in the 20th century.
Funds from the AU Democracy Archive serve as the content for this exhibition, run in collaboration with the AU. Vice President of Equality, Inclusion and Social Responsibility, completed with a thematic portal on the website of this organizationaiming to build a new reality within the archive and democratic memory in order to save the collective from marginality.
Exhibition consisting of 15 panelstakes a tour of the history of this movement, From the years of the dictatorship to the present, With special emphasis on the Valencian Community and Alicante.
Toni Forat Fund
A core piece of this collection comes from city pioneer Toni Forat. First open bar in the neighborhood at age 74 and also the first man out on the street alicante dress, while the country was still under dictatorship. The activist offered to transfer his collection to the Democracy Archive a few years ago, and this is how the LGBTBIQ section was created alongside this exhibition curated by Llum Quiñero.
The fund was in Ibiza. There he was classified and ordered to be transported to Alicante. “When he arrived, we formed a working commission with UA staff and from then on we started shaping the file,” he says. Beatriz Bustos, one of the directors of the Democracy Archive.
“Word of mouth led to more photographs and testimonies reaching us, for example María Sarmiento, president of Dolores Entiende wave first transvestite Alicante, Roberto/Robertina or Carlos Lam, Understands from Alicante».
relational movement
Since the eighties in Alicante an important relational gapuntil 1993, Col lectiu Lambda Alacant, One of its pillars has been the fight against HIV/AIDS and the rights of same-sex couples. Among the activities they dedicate themselves to distribute sexual protection material They line up on Saturday nights. citizen service phone this activity intensifies with the arrival of tourists in the summer. Thanks to this work, the group was selected by the Generalitat to carry out the mission. There is no AIDS campaign in Alicante.
The name was changed in 1995. Alicante Gay and Lesbian Community, I continue to work as an activist and dissemination through New release out of the closet player who started his career with Lambda Alacant before.
In those years they published Magazines with maps that have become a guide for bars and represent authentic leisure and freedom routes.
Exhibition LGTBIQ memory in Alicante, can be visited until 21 July, contextualizing the situation in Alicante with what happened in other countries and Spain in the 60s. Contains a chronological axis, glossary and map of homophobia in different countries of the world. “Our country was one of the pioneering countries and despite a lot of pressure, we have progressed a lot,” says Beatriz Bustos.