Tag Archives: Spain

Thousands of protesters (including an apparently large LGBT contingent) clashed on the streets of Madrid with Catholic pilgrims celebrating the Pope’s arrival for World Youth Day. Ill Papa will conduct a mass before an estimated two million people tomorrow.

Advocate reports: “Hundreds of LGBT protesters planned to kiss while Pope Benedict XVI was en route through Madrid, but police blocked the protesters before they could meet up. The activists had planned to join up on the major artery Calle Serrano, along which the pope later traveled in his bulletproof white vehicle for a welcoming ceremony in Plaza Cibeles Square.”

Temporary public confessionals have been erected in Madrid in anticipation of a papal visit. Who else can totally see this installation being repurposed come nightfall? (Tipped by JMG reader David)

Angry over being accused of being gay, a Catholic priest in Spain has offered to have his anus measured. Because that totally proves…uh…something. The rumors about Father Andrés García Torres apparently started with his above photo with a “young Cuban seminarian.” Ahem. (Tipped by JMG reader Andy)

Inspired by the space-saving furniture on yachts, a Barcelona man turned his 250 square feet apartment into a “Lego-style” living space.

Even in Spanish, somehow this sounds instantly familiar.

Yesterday Pope Benedict spoke via satellite from the Vatican to bless the hundreds of thousands gathered at a massive annual anti-gay marriage rally in Madrid. The rally was sponsored by the Archdiocese of Madrid with the support of the Popular Party, Spain’s right-wing movement which has vowed to overturn same-sex marriage. Organized by the Archdiocese of Madrid and Cardinal Antonio …

Spain’s Young Socialists of Catalonia party is raising eyebrows with this orgasmic GOTV ad. A spokesman for the conservative Convergence and Union Party, Josep Antoni Duran Lleida, called the ad “crude” and suggested it might somehow discourage voters from turning out. Bibiana Aido, Spain’s equality minister, who is a Socialist, admitted that the ad was “misleading,” although, she added, “if …

Spain’s right-wing People’s Party opposition leader Mariano Rajoy has filed a constitutional challenge to marriage equality and has vowed to repeal the law should he become prime minister in 2012. A drag queen showed up at Rajoy’s book launch to let him know what she thought. (Tipped by JMG reader Ejaaz)

Hundreds of homos staged a protest kiss-in as the Pope-Mobile passed in Barcelona today. (Tipped by JMG reader Jimmy)

From the English portion of the clip description, which is in eight languages: Lip dub for the independence of Catalonia and the rest of the Catalan Countries, recorded October the 24th 2010 in the city of Vic. Achieving a total amount of 5.771 participants, the World Records Academy awarded the World Record for being the lip dub with highest participation …

Spain’s hookers are required to wear reflective safety vests when they work in traffic. No vest = 40 Euro fine.

After he accurately predicted the winner in six straight matches, Spain’s Minister of Fisheries says he will ask the German government to ensure that Paul The Octopus is never eaten and will be allowed to die naturally of boredom during the next World Cup.

After just a few more hours we won’t have to hear about soccer for another four years. Of course, there’s one aspect of the sport that isn’t entirely boring.

Spain’s constitutional court declared on Friday that there is no legal basis to consider its Catalonia region an autonomous nation, sending over one million protesters into the streets of Barcelona yesterday. The verdict came after four years of debate in which conservative and liberal judges locked horns over whether the charter went beyond the limits of Spain’s system of granting …

Several readers have written to note that Sunday’s World Cup final will be between Holland and Spain and will be played in South Africa. All three nations grant full marriage equality rights to their LGBT citizens. That’s pretty cool, eh? UPDATE: A reader in Italy sends us his map of this year’s World Cup participants and the status of marriage …

Similar to one staged annually in DC. (Tipped by JMG reader Alja)

Slaggie blogs: A new study by a Spanish gay rights group reports that about 10,000 gay marriages have taken place since Spain legalized gay marriage in 2007. Spain has about 30 million people in 2008 over the age of 15. If 3 percent of the population is homosexual, that would be about 900,000 gay and lesbian adults. So 20,000 gay …

The Catalan government is investigating a Barcelona clinic that is alleged to be performing “gay cures” and may impose fines on the business. Policlinica Tibidabo in the Catalan capital offers pills and psychiatric “treatment” to convert homosexuals. Spain’s leading daily El Pais said people who wanted to be treated are often followers of a particular religion which believes homosexuality is …