Trinidad Falcés, "La Trini", anti-Franco fighter and the first transsexual woman in A Coruña dies
False Trinity, symbol of activism LGTBI, passed away this week A Coruña. She was retaliated against during the dictatorship. She was in prison for five years, part of which she spent in the homosexual prison of Badajoz. In 1977, after the death of franc, was at the forefront of the first LGTBI demonstration, in Barcelona.
the trinity, born in 1942 in the then capital of Galicia as Antonio, managed to get the Civil Registry of A Coruña to recognize the change of his name to that of Trinidad.
She told that she was the daughter of a rapist who had abused her biological mother, who gave birth to her in the Church of Santiago, in the old city of A Coruña, according to the local newspaper three years ago Between us. But her family warns that she is not sure that this was true.
Like so many other thousands of Galicians, he emigrated to Barcelona fleeing poverty, where he lived a good part of a life that he dedicated to claiming his right to be who he was.
Law of vagrants and thugs
The Francoist police booked her very shortly after, and she said that there was «played the piano» barely fifteen years old. Among those persecuted by fascism they used to say «play the piano» to the taking of fingerprints with ink on the cards of the police files.
Between multiple arrests and sentences based on the law of vagrants and crooksHe spent five years in prison. Of these, five months in a concentration camp for homosexuals in Badajoz. That did not prevent him from always carrying in his bag a sheet of crumpled newspaper with the story of Marcela and Elisa, the two Galician women who managed to get married by the Church in 1901 pretending that one of them was a man.
Marcela and Elisa give name to the prize that each year gives the Association for Affective and Sexual Freedom (ALAS) from A Coruña, and that in 2019 they gave her as an example of the fight for integration and sexual diversity. «For me this award means everything, because I have never been given anything in my life. I have always seen myself very marginalized and very badhe said that day.
Trini in Barcelona
In 1977 he headed the first Pride demonstration in Barcelona and continued to offer a resistance «dissident and brave in the face of repression, prison, police abuse and the pointing out of a society that did not understand (and sometimes still does not understand) what is out of the (supposed) normalityAccording to the text in Facebook of Eva Mejuto.
In the nineties he decided to return to A Coruña, and in 2007 the historical memory law officially recognized her as a victim of the dictatorship. «Visiting La Trini meant returning with a mountain of gifts: rings, necklaces, clothes, books, souvenirs, gossip... All the belongings and memories that she had been accumulating in a life full of experiences, adventures, several lives in one that she loved. share and remember, pray with bitterness, pray with nostalgia: 'That they take away the dance, I go through everything', was his catchphrase«.
«Our memory is diverse and colorful, let's not forget who started our fight, with everything against us, we have a lot to learn from that generation. And all to be thankful for. Thanks, Trina., Let the earth be mild. Wherever you are, do not forget that there are many people who loved and admired you. Let them take away the dance, and everything happens!«, concludes the text.
Deixounos Trini Falcés, referring to the defense of two rights?️⚧️e prize #MarcelaElisa not 2019?
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? She was reprisalized during the dictatorship
? Lead the 1st March of Pride in Barcelona in 1977Will you always be with us? pic.twitter.com/9tD9jrqaO7
– WINGS A Coruña (@alasacoruna) August 11
