Overview
- At the ceremony, the central government also honored José Antonio Nielfa, known as 'La Otxoa', for decades of LGTBIQ+ rights advocacy.
- Nielfa used the event to recall being imprisoned under the dictatorship for being gay.
- The former Colonia Agrícola Penitenciaria de Tefía in Fuerteventura operated roughly from 1954 to 1966, holding homosexual and trans people in forced-labor conditions reported as inhumane.
- Officials described the designation as Spain’s first officially recognized LGTBIQ+ place of memory.
- The government situated the step within a broader expansion of democratic memory sites, noting additional designations under way, including the Masonic Temple of Tenerife.