Ángeles Álvarez Álvarez (born 12 February 1961) is a Spanish politician and feminist activist. She served as a deputy for

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from 2011 to 2019. She was also a spokesperson for equality of the

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in the Congress of Deputies. She has a long history in defense of

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. In 1999, she was the author of a pioneering guide on

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. Álvarez and Teresa Heredero were the first two lesbians to marry in Madrid in 2005 is a ceremony carried out by

Pedro Zerolo Pedro González Zerolo (20 July 1960, Caracas – 9 June 2015, Madrid) was a Spanish-Venezuelan lawyer, politician and a town councillor of the city of Madrid, and a member of the Federal Executive Committee of the PSOE where he held the position ...

. She was the first member of

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to openly come out as

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in 2013.

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