Tania Navarro Amo
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Tania Navarro Amo | |
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| Born | January 6, 1956 Barcelona, Spain |
| Occupations | Writer, LGBT rights activist, vedette performer |
Tania Navarro Amo (born 6 January 1956) is a Spanish writer, and LGBT rights activist. She was a former vedette performer.
Tania Navarro Amo was born on 6 January 1956 in Barcelona, Spain, during the dictatorship of Francisco Franco[1][2] and 22 years before the legalization/decriminalization of queerness in Spain. She grew up in a profoundly conservative and transphobic environment, and under a regime that persecuted sexual and gender non-conformities.[3]
In 1965 his mother decided to enter her into a reformatory, convinced by her neighbors. After several escapes, and still under the Franco regime, Tania was forced into prostitution while still a minor, which led to her being imprisoned. During her time in prison, she was a victim of a multitude of abuse, humiliation, and aggression by prison officials because of her identity, as well as a victim of multiple sexual assaults by both prison officials and other inmates.[3]
After her release from prison, she worked as a vedette in various theaters in Madrid and Barcelona, debuting first as a ballet dancer in the Hotel El Palace in Barcelona and she later put on shows that challenged prevailing sexual morality.[4][5] She was also one of the trans women present in the 1977 Barcelona gay pride demonstration, the first LGBT Pride demonstration in the history of Spain.[4]
On 20 August 2021 she published her autobiography, La infancia de una transexual en la dictadura, A través de los ojos de mi madre, in which she narrates the experiences of her life, as well as the abuses she suffered for being a trans woman during the Franco regime.
