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A stroll through the elegant, narrow streets of Chueca today reveals one of Madrid’s most thriving and bustling neighborhoods, where alternative fashion stores jostle for space with gourmet restaurants. It is a success story that goes hand in hand with the conquest of rights by Spain’s LGBT community. 
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Fabrice Tasendo's insight:
#MadridPride is one of those #GayEvents that will stay with you for a lifetime, and this year it's even larger with #WorldPride because whoever you love, Madrid loves you <3
Matt Skallerud's curator insight,
November 30, 2016 10:47 AM
#MadridPride is one of those #GayEvents that will stay with you for a lifetime, and this year it's even larger with #WorldPride because whoever you love, Madrid loves you <3 |
Today’s Spain is a world leader when it comes to recognition of sexual diversity, a remarkable turnaround since the country emerged from the repressive Franco dictatorship in the mid-1970s and began to embrace democracy and individual liberties. According to the latest survey on this topic by the Pew Research Center, 88 percent of Spaniards said they accepted equal rights for homosexuals, more than in any other country. Spain’s 2005 law granting same-sex couples equal marriage and adoption rights was a landmark, since copied in many other jurisdictions.