A defunción dos sexos

The death of the sexes: sexual dissidents in contemporary Galicia is an informative book that collects stories and memories of people who lived beyond the sexual norm in Galicia for the last one hundred and fifty years. Through archival sources and journalism it reflects on some of the itineraries that these people had to travel and their confrontation with the yoke of a compulsory sexuality that condemned them to the margins and ostracism. This book starts with the awareness that the way out of that hidden drawer in which history has deposited sexual dissidents is an essential step in articulating an LGBT memory in today's Galicia. For this, the development of the work does not focus on an exhaustive account of sexual and gender dissent in each of the periods investigated, but these are configured as small windows from which stories and memories of diverse people are extracted. Persecuted, accepted, tolerated or repressed. Lives, after all, necessary for a current and collective reflection on the past, present and future of the sexual dissidents that populate the Galician country today.