Anybody who was right here within the 80s will bear in mind the unmistakable determine of the Juanita in Motril; an aged transvestite cherished by many however tortured by most.
Coming throughout Juanita, wrinkled and accomplished as much as the nines, carrying a miniskirt in a city like Motril, lower than half a dozen years after the demise of the rightwing dictator, Franco, was a shock, to say the least.
La Juanita would stroll down Avenida Salobreña attracting ironic wolf whistles from drivers – she didn’t thoughts; that’s why she did it, maybe. Down on the seashore she can be trailed by taunting kids.
Well, the Spokeswoman for the far-left, IU Verdes Equo, Inma Omiste, has requested that Mayor Luisa García Chamorro delivers on the pledge to put a bust of La Juanita on Calle Cervantes.
This is as a result of in September, 2018, a Plenary Meeting of the Town Council unanimously accredited a movement to put such a bust on the mentioned road. However, apparently, there isn’t a written document of this, which could be very shocking, so it actually depends upon the Mayor to recognise that there was such a call taken and to behave on it.
IU Verdes Equo contemplate that it’s essential to “safeguard the reminiscence of La Juanita” as it’s “elementary to recognise her place within the historical past of Motril as a logo of freedom and variety.”
Editorial remark: Juanita’s actual title was Juan Alabarce Maldonado and was born in Motril in 1924. A lady in a person’s physique, la Juanita felt like a girl, dressed like a girl and by no means hid, though for a few years being completely different in Spain was punished with beatings, mockery, and humiliation. La Juanita died in 2009 on the age of 85, after a lifetime of abuse and social rejection. Olé tus ovarios, Juanita!
(News: Motril, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia)
Keywords: La Juanita, Juan Alabarce Maldonado, Transvestite
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