Ben Freeman, Vagrants and Criminals: Church, the State and Gay Rights in Spain and Paraguay
In 1933, lawyer Jimenez de Asua drafted the now-infamous Law of Vagrants and Criminals []. Scholar Nathan Baidez explains that the original law had a “preventative character” and that it had the “goal of rehabilitating the individual.” Indeed, the law’s stated purpose was originally to “rid the cities of the presence of people who live a bad life without resorting to police methods that belong to the margins of legality and that trample liberty.” While homophobia certainly existed in Spain during the Republican period, it did not become rampant and legalized until the Franco regime won the Spanish Civil War in 1939.
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