An entertaining LGTBIQ+ story from Spain that confronts hoaxes and misinformation with rigor and sources

Did you know that medieval Islam considered lesbianism a superior form of love?

Do you know Estebanía de Valdaracete, the intersex man who challenged several officers of Charles V to duels and won them all?

Did you have any idea that one of the oldest joint burials of two men is documented on the Iberian Peninsula more than 3,500 years ago?

This is a story of deviants: the gay man, the lesbian, the sodomite, the invert, the transvestite, the hermaphrodite…; those who defied the norms of desire, gender, or sex. You could say it is the LGTBIQ+ history of Spain from long before those acronyms or even Spain itself existed. On this journey, which begins in Prehistory and takes us to the present day, we will meet those who rarely appear in books: the deviants who lived, defied the rules, and wove their own networks and spaces.

“It is said that we are a danger to the nation, to the state, to society, to marriage, to men, to women, and to children. It is said that we are a lobby seeking to take over series and movies, that we are a modern invention, a whim of idle youth, or worse, the result of an agenda. And yet, when we look back in time, in one way or another, we have always been there.”