Tania Navarro Amo

Tania Navarro Amo (born 6 January 1956) is a Spanish writer, and LGBT rights activist. She was a former vedette performer.

Life and career Tania Navarro Amo was born on 6 January 1956 in Barcelona, Spain, during the dictatorship of Francisco Franco and 22 years before the legalization/decriminalization of queerness in Spain. She grew up in a profoundly conservative and transphobic environment, and under a regime that persecuted sexual and gender non-conformities.

In 1965 his mother decided to enter her into a reformatory, convinced by her neighbors. After several escapes, and still under the Franco regime, Tania was forced into prostitution while still a minor, which led to her being imprisoned. During her time in prison, she was a victim of a multitude of abuse, humiliation, and aggression by prison officials because of her identity, as well as a victim of multiple sexual assaults by both prison officials and other inmates. She was also one of the trans women present in the 1977 Barcelona gay pride demonstration, the first LGBT Pride demonstration in the history of Spain.