Chueca (Madrid)

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Metro station in Plaza de Chueca

Chueca is a neighborhood in the center of the Spanish capital, Madrid . The district got its name from a small square, the Plaza de Chueca , which is located in the middle of the district and is reminiscent of the Spanish composer Federico Chueca . The Chueca metro station is located in Plaza de Chueca.

Until the 1990s, Chueca was a dangerous neighborhood with drug-related crime and prostitution. That has changed since gays and lesbians to the district have assumed apartments bought and shops have opened and the here lesbian and gay district has established in Madrid. In the meantime, Chueca has developed into the largest and best-known gay and lesbian district in Spain. Restaurants, cafes, designer shops, boutiques and discos have sprung up. In his cultural history of homosexuality in Spain in the 20th century , Alberto Mira speaks of the “Chueca phenomenon”, which “reflects the normalization, visibility and commercialization of gay and lesbian people”. It also means the coexistence of people of different sexual orientations, which leads to an old lady hoisting a rainbow flag on her balcony for Christopher Street Day (CSD) as a district festival. Every year there is now a CSD parade that attracts Spaniards and foreign guests.

In May 2016, the mayoress Carmen Carmela named one of the most important squares in the neighborhood to Pedro Zerolo Square, in memory of the lawyer, activist and leader of the Spanish Socialist Party, Pedro Zerolo, who died in the same year and who was strongly committed to same-sex marriage.

Coordinates: 40 ° 25 ′ 18 ″  N , 3 ° 41 ′ 53 ″  W.

Chueca in art

Carlos Sanrune chose Chueca as the setting for his novel The Gladiator of Chueca (1992), in which he tells the story of a male hustler from the 1990s. Other novels such as Las distancias cortas (2008) by Íñigo Sota Heras or La loca aventura de vivir by Leopoldo Alas are set in Chueca.

Exhibitions on homosexuality are mainly held in Chueca. Well-known is the annual Visible festival where works by artists such as Roberto González Fernández , David Trullo , Wilhelm von Gloeden or Jean Cocteau were shown. Exhibitions such as “ De bares hacia la exposicón ” (2011) by Daniel Garbade , or the illustrations by Miguel Navia in Chueca (2014) reflect everyday life in the neighborhood.

Chueca is also a popular film location for feature films. Eloy de Iglesias shot his last film there: Los novios bulgaros based on the novel of the same name by Eduardo Mendicutti , The Club of Bears by Miguel Albaladejo , Chuecatown by Juan Flahn , Fuera de carta by Nacho Garcia Velilla and Friends for Life by Cesc Gay found theirs there Film set.

literature

  • Alberto Mira: De Sodoma a Chueca. Una historia cultural de la homosexualidad en España en el siglo XX . Egales, Madrid-Barcelona, ​​2ª edición 2004.

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  1. ↑ a b Fernando Delgado: Territorio Chueca . El País, July 6, 2004
  2. ^ Alberto Mira: De Sodoma a Chueca. Una historia cultural de la homosexualidad en España en el siglo XX . Egales, Madrid-Barcelona, ​​2ª edición 2004.
  3. ^ Madrid estrena la plaza de Pedro Zerolo en el barrio de Chueca. El Pais, May 15, 2016, accessed December 18, 2016 (esp).
  4. ^ Leopoldo Alas: La loca aventura de vivir . Ed .: Odisea. Odisea Editorial, Madrid, ISBN 978-84-92609-11-6 .
  5. ↑ Un paseo de Arte por Madrid. Odisea Editorial, October 7, 2011, accessed November 14, 2016 (esp).
  6. ↑ Katharina Granzin: Friends for Life. Film releases, February 25, 2016, accessed November 14, 2016 .

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