That Spain has become a sexually advanced democracy on a global scale is not at all evident: the victories of LGBT+ rights subjects could well serve as a pinkwashing of the global crisis affecting Spain since 2008. The book proposes a counter-history that denaturalizes the link between the 1978 constitutionalism, middle-class consumers, and LGBT+ recognition to reconnect the excluded from post-Franco modernity in a historical key. Reacting against the place assigned to them by the middle-class democracy while building their commons during the "transition," in 1980 the humanimals and the Pilinguis—the queer ghosts of Spanish democracy—saw the constitutional order as an "institutionalized barbarism," against which they undertook intense cultural struggles. From the interpretation of their defeat and death before transitional biopolitics, "emerging ruins" may arise, sparks to ignite other futures: they not only break with the strongest narrative of the modern imaginary of the present time but also call to think about the post-mesocratic, posthuman, and postcolonial becoming of democratic commons in European territory in future time.