Tag: Spain
Spain’s gays get first ever royal reception
Spain’s newly enthroned King Felipe and Queen Letizia broke with tradition on Tuesday by officially receiving representatives from Spain’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) groups at the royal El Pardo palace on Tuesday and highlighting that their work “deserves to be better known and acknowledged”.
Call for boycott of Spanish department store over sales of anti-gay books
El Corte Inglés has continued to stock three books despite more than a year of protests by LGBT groups in Spain
Homophobic aggression is the main hate crime in Spain
In 2013, 452 official complaints were made over sexual orientation.
Homophobic aggression is above racist comments and attacks on the disabled.
HRC Statements on Nominations of James Costos and Rufus Gifford
Last Friday the White House announced the nominations of James Costos, an accomplished businessman and current executive at HBO, as the United States Ambassador to Spain, and Rufus Gifford, a former finance official for the Presidential Inaugural Committee, Obama for America, and the Democratic National Committee, as the United States Ambassador to Denmark.
Ben Haigh running Barcelona Marathon to raise money for Stonewall
He want’s to train toward something (and achieve a goal) knowing that he have made money for a worthy cause, the London Marathon is done too often so he felt like doing something a little bit different, and with Barcelona being such a beautiful city and the marathon being one of the biggest in Europe, he thought “why not!”.
TLA strikes deal with filmin
TLA Releasing is proud to announce it has teamed up with filmin, Spain’s leading independent online movie service, to bring some of the biggest LGBT movies to the Spanish market.