La represión de la homosexualidad durante el franquismo: El tribunal de Vagos y Maleantes de Bilbao (1954-1970)

Antonio Pérez Embeita

doi:10.70794/hs.113448

Authors

Antonio Pérez Embeita Universidad del País Vasco/EHU https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6940-7421

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.70794/hs.113448

Keywords:

Homosexuality, repression, Vagos y Maleantes, francoism, psychiatry

Abstract

This article applies a analyses the sentences of the “Tribunal de Vagos y Maleantes” of Bilbao, of persons convicted of homosexuality from 1954 to 1970. On the basis of this analysis, it was possible to draw up the socio-economic profile of the convicted persons, verifying that the Franco justice against homosexuality was a class justice. The documents of the judicial records are also examined in order to gain a thorough understanding of the various aspects of repression (religious, psychiatric…) and thus to have a more complete knowledge of the reality of the repression of homosexuality in the final part of the dictatorship.

Author Biography

Antonio Pérez Embeita, Universidad del País Vasco/EHU

Doctor in Contemporary History from the University of the Basque Country. Currently a Doctoral Researcher at the UNESCO Chair in Human Rights and Public Powers at the University of the Basque Country, and Acting Lecturer in the Department of Contemporary History at the Faculty of Arts in Vitoria-Gasteiz. Member of the consolidated research group Biography and Parliament. He has published the book “Las ‘buenas familias’ de Bilbao y el poder local en el primer franquismo (1937-159)” [The 'good families' of Bilbao and local power in the early Franco era (1937-1959)] as well as articles in various scientific journals, mainly in the field of local power under Franco and repression during the dictatorship.