So Many Ways to Love
LGBT. That's a new term here. Before that it was "gays" and "homosexuales." Long before that it was "desviados. " But in this new century Spain has become one of the European countries where the LGBT community is most accepted. It became the third country to allow same-sex marriages in 2005 and the first to allow same-sex couples to adopt children. Discrimination on basis of sexuality is against the law, though the law can be flouted in so many ways. Still, society here has accepted different sexualities, especially in the larger cities. In our town there are quite a few young people who are openly gay or lesbian. But older people have never really shown their true colors. Except for one man, a local pharmacist who had a long-standing feud with the town hall over a ruinous building at the entrance to the town. He never hid himself once Franco died. At first he was mocked and laughed at. Some idiots openly humiliated him. Now he is living his life ...