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Queer History 118: The Tragedy of Carmen Carrasco (1932)
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Queer History 118: The Tragedy of Carmen Carrasco (1932)

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Queer History 118: The Tragedy of Carmen Carrasco (1932)
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In a Spain teetering between progress and persecution, one woman's death exposed the brutal reality faced by those who dared to love differently.

The day they found Carmen Carrasco's body, Madrid whispered. The fucking hypocrites always do. Behind lace curtains and between sips of cafรฉ con leche, they exchanged knowing glances about the "scandalous woman" whose life and brutal death would accidentally rip away the carefully crafted veil hiding Spain's vibrant lesbian subculture. In death, Carmen became more dangerous to the establishment than she ever was in life.

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1932 Spain existed in a fragile moment. The Second Republic had just decriminalized homosexuality, removing it from the Spanish Criminal Codeโ€”a brief, shining moment of progress in a deeply Catholic country where tradition and religious morality had long suffocated those โ€ฆ

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