Spanish Movement for Homosexual Liberation

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Formation1970
TypeNGO
Fieldsgay rights
Formerly called
Agrupación Homófila para la Igualdad Sexual
Spanish Movement for Homosexual Liberation
Movimiento Español de Liberación Homosexual
Formation1970
TypeNGO
Fieldsgay rights
Formerly called
Agrupación Homófila para la Igualdad Sexual

The Spanish Movement for Homosexual Liberation(Movimiento Español de Liberación Homosexual), founded in 1970, was the first organization defending gay rights in Spain.[1] Initially they were called "la Agrupación Homófila para la Igualdad Sexual"(The Homophile Group for Sexual Equality).

The association originates from the homosexual Catalonian groups that met in various private residences in Barcelona. The creation was fueled in part by the law on dangerousness and social rehabilitation passed in 1970 which made gay acts a crime.[2] In 1970, Mir Bellgai and Roger de Gaimon, pseudonyms of Francesc Francino and Armand de Fluvià, created clandestinely in Barcelona, "la Agrupación Homófila para la Igualdad Sexual"(The Homophile Group for Sexual Equality).

In 1971, the group was renamed as "Movimiento Español de Liberación Homosexual"(Spanish Movement for Homosexual Liberation), already with branches in Madrid and Bilbao, named similarly to the Gay Liberation Front in the United States. The first meeting under the new name was on the tenth of July, 1972.

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