RT Journal Article
T1 Migration, Repression and Homosexual Sociability in Francoist Spain: An Analysis of the Case Files of the Special Courts of Barcelona (1965–1975)
A1 Mas Grau, Jordi
A1 Cáceres-Feria, Rafael
K1 Franquismo
K1 Represion
K1 LGBTIQ+ Migration
K1 Sexile
AB In Spain, under General Franco's regime, homosexuality was regarded as an antisocial and dangerous behaviour. It was thus pursued both by the police and judicial courts. The Law on Vagrants and Crooks (1954) and, subsequently, the Law on Dangerousness and Social Rehabilitation (1970) constituted the legal mechanisms used by the dictatorship to lock up and re-socialise homosexuals. In this article, we examine 321 case files of persons of Spanish nationality who emigrated to the city of Barcelona and who were convicted of homosexuality by the Special Courts of Barcelona between 1965 and 1975. The analysis revealed a bias in Francoist justice based on social class and Catholic morality. Those convicted were overwhelmingly young men of limited financial and cultural resources who came from the less developed Spanish regions. However, despite this repression, spheres of homosexual sociability which transgressed the dominant moral norms existed in Barcelona during that period.
PB Wiley
SN 1468-0424
YR 2026
FD 2026
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10433/27335
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10433/27335
LA en
NO Mas Grau, J., & Cáceres-Feria, R. (2026). Migration, repression and homosexual sociability in Francoist Spain: An analysis of the case files of the Special Courts of Barcelona (1965–1975). Gender & History, 38(2), 672–679. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.70004
NO Proyectos de investigación- Represión de los disidentes sexuales en Andalucía durante el franquismo y la transición (Repression of sexual dissidents in Andalusia during the Franco regime and the transition), funded by the Ministry of Economic Transformation, Industry, Knowledge and Universities of the Junta de Andalucía and the European Union (ERDF) (UPO-1264661)- Sexilio y transformaciones de las sexualidades disidentes en la ciudad de Barcelona durante la dictadura franquista (Exile and transformations of dissident sexualities in the city of Barcelona during the Franco dictatorship), a project which is part of the Pedro Zerolo Foundation, funded by the General Directorate of Democratic Memory of the Ministry of the Presidency, Relations with the Courts and Democratic Memory of the Government of Spain- Resignificaciones de las memorias y patrimonializaciones LGTBIQ+: voces y silencios (Resignifications of LGBTIQ+ memories and heritagisations: voices and silences), funded by Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities of the Government of Spain (PID2023-151409NB-I00).
NO Departamento de Psicología Social, Antropología Básica y Salud Pública de la Universidad Pablo de Olavide
DS RIO
RD Sep 14, 2026