In 2019, the Barcelona City Council, headed by Ada Colau, filed a complaint against the Franco regime for crimes against humanity against LGBT people. This book reworks and expands the report written by historian Geoffroy Huard to accompany the complaint. It shows, thanks to the archives of the courts of vagos and thugs and dangerousness and social rehabilitation, that "inverted" and "homosexuals" were categories used by the Francoist authorities as a kind of catch-all in which any sexual deviation and especially gender deviation (effeminate, transvestite, transsexual, prostitute, etc.) fit.
What was most taken into account was above all the gender inversion, especially of people from the popular classes, who were the only ones condemned during the entire dictatorship. Los Invertidos reconstructs that class bias, as well as the sociability of homosexuals and transsexuals of the popular classes during the Franco regime, trying to understand why they fled to big capitals like Madrid and Barcelona, what they did once there, how and what they lived on, what the links were with.
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