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Title: Spanish capital a haven for young gays from Latin America
Post by: LostInTime on June 28, 2007, 06:44:25 AM
SAWF (http://news.sawf.org/Lifestyle/39239.aspx)

Earlier this year another law came into effect which allows transsexuals to change their name and official gender without the need for an operation.

Only a generation ago under right-wing dictator Francisco Franco, whose rule was blessed by the church in heavily Roman Catholic Spain, homosexual acts were illegal and thousands of gays were shipped off to institutions.