List of LGBTQ politicians in Spain

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This is a list of lesbian, gay, and bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) Spaniards who have served in the Spanish Cortes Generales, the Spanish government or the regional parliaments.

As of June 2024,^[update] 37 members of the LGBT community are known to have held office in the Spanish Cortes Generales. In the Congress, 28 LGBT people held office; in the Senate, 15 held office. Five people, Jerónimo Saavedra, Miriam Blasco, Antonio Hurtado, María Freixanet, Javier Maroto, and Raúl Díaz have served in both Chambers. The earliest known LGBT congressperson was Jerónimo Saavedra, who is also the earliest known openly LGBT senator, although he was not out during his tenure as deputy. The earliest openly LGBT deputy is therefore Ernesto Gasco. Following the 2023 elections, Carla Antonelli became the first trans person to serve in either chamber of the Spanish legislature. There are currently^[update] 6 openly LGBT members of the 15th Congress: 5 of them belong to the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party or the Socialists' Party of Catalonia and one belongs to the People's Party; and four openly LGBT senators, two from the People's Party, one from the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party and one from the regionalist Más Madrid.

Senate

All senators listed served as open members of the LGBT community unless otherwise specified:

† Came out after serving

‡ Posthumously identified as LGBT

Senator		Party		Elected by	Term		Notes
					Start	End
	Jerónimo Saavedra		Spanish Socialist Workers' Party	Regional designation (Canary Islands)	July 20, 1999	July 22, 2003	Saavedra became the first openly LGBT senator and the first openly LGBT politician of Spain after the Franco dictatorship.[1]
	Miriam Blasco†		People's Party	Elected (Valencia)	March 12, 2000	September 26, 2011	Blasco came out in 2017, when she announced she was married since 2015 to her former rival from the 1992 Olympics, Nicola Fairbrother, after 22 years of relationship. She was previously married to a man, Alfredo Aracil. During her tenure, she voted against the same-sex marriage bill.
	Antonio Hurtado		Spanish Socialist Workers' Party	Elected (Córdoba)	March 9, 2008	September 26, 2011	Hurtado is openly gay.[2]
	Jesús Martín		Spanish Socialist Workers' Party	Elected (Ciudad Real)	November 20, 2011	Incumbent	Martín is openly gay.[3]
	Pilar Lima		Podemos	Regional designation (Valencia)	July 22, 2015	May 15, 2019	Lima became the first openly lesbian senator.[4]
	María Freixanet		Catalonia in Common	Elected (Barcelona)	December 20, 2015	May 21, 2019	Freixanet is openly lesbian.[5]
	Iñaki Oyarzabal		People's Party	Elected (Álava)	June 26, 2016	March 5, 2019	Oyarzábal recognised his homosexuality in June 2012, after agreeing to appear in the list of most influential gay Spaniards.[6]
	Hipólito Suárez		People's Party	Elected (Gran Canaria)	June 26, 2016	March 4, 2019	Suárez is openly gay.[7]
	Eduardo Rubiño		Más Madrid	Regional designation (Madrid)	July 11, 2019	July 12, 2021	Rubiño is openly gay.[8]
	Raúl Díaz		Spanish Socialist Workers' Party	Regional designation (La Rioja)	July 23, 2019	January 10, 2022	Díaz is openly gay.[9][10]
	Javier Maroto		People's Party	Regional designation (Castile and León)	July 24, 2019	Incumbent
	Pablo Ruz		People's Party	Elected (Alicante)	November 11, 2019	May 29, 2023	Ruz is openly gay[11][12]
	Jaime de los Santos		People's Party	Regional designation (Madrid)	July 9, 2021	Incumbent
	Carla Antonelli		Más Madrid	Regional designation (Madrid)	August 17, 2023	Incumbent	Antonelli became the first trans person to serve in the Spanish Cortes Generales

Congress of Deputies

All deputies listed served as open members of the LGBT community unless otherwise specified:

† Came out after serving

‡ Posthumously identified as LGBT

Representative		Party		Province	Term		Notes
					Start	End
	Jerónimo Saavedra†		Spanish Socialist Workers' Party	Las Palmas	June 15, 1977	May 26, 1983	Saavedra came out later in the 2000, during his tenure as Senator.
					March 3, 1996	July 6, 1999
	Miquel Iceta†		Socialists' Party of Catalonia	Barcelona	March 27, 1996	November 5, 1999	Iceta came out on November 13, 1999.[5]
	Ernesto Gasco		Spanish Socialist Workers' Party	Gipuzkoa	April 1, 2008	May 14, 2009	Gasco was the first Spanish deputy to openly serve. His domestic partnership with his boyfriend in 2003 became the first one of that kind.[13] In 2005, after the approval of the same-sex marriage bill, they became the first same-sex marriage of two politicians in Spain.[14] When he was elected in 2008, he became the first married gay deputy.
	Ángeles Álvarez		Spanish Socialist Workers' Party	Madrid	December 13, 2011	October 27, 2015	Álvarez married her girlfriend on October 28, 2005, the first female same-sex marriage officiated at the Madrid City Council following the approval of the same-sex marriage bill.[15]
					July 19, 2016	March 3, 2019
	Antonio Hurtado		Spanish Socialist Workers' Party	Córdoba	December 13, 2011	March 5, 2019
					February 25, 2020	May 30, 2023
	Felipe Sicilia		Spanish Socialist Workers' Party	Jaén	December 13, 2011	May 30, 2023	Sicilia is openly gay.[16]
	Miriam Blasco†		People's Party	Alicante	December 13, 2011	October 27, 2015
	Ricardo Sixto		United Left	Valencia	December 13, 2011	May 20, 2019	Sixto is openly gay.[17]
	José Manuel Girela		Spanish Socialist Workers' Party	Seville	July 8, 2014	October 27, 2015	Girela is openly gay.[5]
	Adrián Barbón		Spanish Socialist Workers' Party	Asturias	September 29, 2015	October 27, 2015	[18]
	Lucía Martín		In Common We Can	Barcelona	December 20, 2015	April 21, 2019	Martín is openly LGBT.[19]
	María Such		Spanish Socialist Workers' Party	Valencia	January 5, 2016	August 8, 2016	Such married her girlfriend on 2020.[20]
	María del Mar García		Podemos	Barcelona	January 13, 2016	May 30, 2023	García is openly bisexual.[16]
	Ángela Rodríguez		Podemos	Pontevedra	January 13, 2016	May 21, 2019	Rodríguez "Pam" is openly bisexual.[21]
	Sergi Miquel		Catalan European Democratic Party	Girona	July 5, 2016	May 30, 2023	Miquel is openly gay.[16]
	Joan Mena		Catalonia in Common	Barcelona	July 13, 2016	May 30, 2023	Mena is openly gay.[16]
	Javier Maroto		People's Party	Álava	October 18, 2016	March 5, 2019	Maroto announced his marriage with his 19-year partner in June 2015.[22] Representatives from the conservative People's Party assisted to the wedding, sparkling criticism after their known opposition to the same-sex marriage law.[23]
	Arnau Ramírez		Socialists' Party of Catalonia	Barcelona	May 21, 2019	Incumbent	Ramírez is openly gay.[16]
	María Freixanet		Catalonia in Common	Barcelona	May 21, 2019	September 24, 2019	Freixanet is openly lesbian.[5]
	Sergio Sayas		Navarra Suma (until 1 March 2022)	Navarre	May 21, 2019	May 30, 2023	Sayas is openly gay.[24]
			Independent (1 March 2022 - 17 August 2023)
			People's Party		August 17, 2023	Incumbent
	Fernando Grande-Marlaska		Spanish Socialist Workers' Party	Cádiz	May 21, 2019	February 21, 2020	Grande-Marlaska is openly gay, and married his boyfriend in 2005 following the approval of the same-sex marriage law.[25]
					August 17, 2023	December 6, 2023
	Francisco Polo		Socialists' Party of Catalonia	Barcelona	May 21, 2019	January 27, 2020	Polo is openly gay.[26]
	Pablo Montesinos		People's Party	Málaga	May 21, 2019	April 21, 2022	Montesinos is openly LGBT[27]
	Antonio Fagúndez		Spanish Socialist Workers' Party	Zamora	December 3, 2019	Incumbent	Fagúndez is openly gay.[28]
	Raquel Pedraja		Spanish Socialist Workers' Party	La Rioja	February 18, 2020	May 30, 2023	Pedraja is openly lesbian.[16]
	Lázaro Azorín		Spanish Socialist Workers' Party	Alicante	February 25, 2020	Incumbent	Azorín is openly gay.[29]
	Raúl Díaz		Spanish Socialist Workers' Party	La Rioja	August 17, 2023	Incumbent	Díaz is openly gay.[9][30]
	Víctor Gutiérrez		Spanish Socialist Workers' Party	Madrid	December 5, 2023	Incumbent	Gutiérrez is openly gay[31] since 2016, when he became the first openly gay elite Spanish sportsman.

Government

In addition, several members of the Spanish government, present in the Spanish Cortes Generales but without right to vote, have belonged to the LGBT community.

All ministers listed served as open members of the LGBT community unless otherwise specified:

† Came out after serving

‡ Posthumously identified as LGBT

Minister		Party		Ministry	Term		Notes
					Start	End
	Jerónimo Saavedra†		Spanish Socialist Workers' Party	Minister of Public Administrations	July 14, 1993	July 3, 1995
				Minister of Education and Science	July 3, 1995	May 5, 1996
	Miguel Sebastián†		Spanish Socialist Workers' Party	Minister of Industry, Tourism and Trade	April 14, 2008	December 22, 2011
	Màxim Huerta		Independent	Minister of Culture and Sport	June 7, 2018	June 14, 2018	Huerta is openly gay.[32]
	Fernando Grande-Marlaska		Spanish Socialist Workers' Party	Minister of the Interior	June 7, 2018	Incumbent
	Miquel Iceta		Socialists' Party of Catalonia	Minister of Territorial Policy and Civil Service	January 27, 2021	July 12, 2021
				Minister of Culture and Sport	July 12, 2021	November 21, 2023

Andalusian Parliament

Deputy		Party		Term		Notes
				Start	End
	Felipe Sicilia		Spanish Socialist Workers' Party	October 10, 2007	April 1, 2008
				September 25, 2009	December 1, 2011
	Antonio Maíllo		United Left	April 16, 2015	June 18, 2019	Maíllo is openly gay.[33]

Aragonese Corts

Basque Parliament

Deputy		Party		Term		Notes
				Start	End
	Iñaki Oyarzabal		People's Party	May 31, 1996	June 26, 2016	Oyarzabal came out in 2012.
	Javier Maroto†		People's Party	November 20, 2012	June 30, 2015
	Eukene Arana		Elkarrekin Podemos	October 21, 2016	February 11, 2020	Arana is openly lesbian and mother of twins.[34]
	Ikoitz Arrese		EH Bildu	August 3, 2020	Incumbent	Arrese is openly LGBT[35]

Canarian Parliament

Senator		Party		Term		Notes
				Start	End
	Jerónimo Saavedra†		Spanish Socialist Workers' Party	May 8, 1983	July 14, 1993
				June 13, 1999	May 25, 2003
	Noelia García†		People's Party	April 12, 2000	May 25, 2003
	Hipólito Suárez		People's Party	June 25, 2019	Incumbent
	Omar López González		Spanish Socialist Workers' Party	June 25, 2019	October 7, 2019

Cortes of Castile-La Mancha

Cortes of Castile and León

Extremaduran Assembly

Deputy		Party		Term		Notes
				Start	End
	Víctor Manuel Casco		United Left	July 21, 2011	March 30, 2015	Casco came out while defending a proposal related to the defense of the Human Rights of LGBT people.[36]

General Junta of the Principality of Asturias

Deputy		Party		Term		Notes
				Start	End
	Adrián Barbón		Spanish Socialist Workers' Party	June 24, 2019	Incumbent	[18]

Madrid Assembly

Deputy		Party		Term		Notes
				Start	End
	Carla Antonelli		Spanish Socialist Workers' Party	June 7, 2011	June 8, 2021	When elected, Antonelli became the first trans person appointed to a legislature in Spain, and was reelected in 2015 and 2019.[37] She failed to retain her seat following the 2021 regional election. She is the first and to date only trans person to serve in any regional or national legislature in Spain.
			Más Madrid	June 14, 2023	Incumbent
	Eduardo Rubiño		Más Madrid	June 9, 2015	June 12, 2023
	Beatriz Gimeno		Podemos	June 9, 2015	June 13, 2023	Historical activist, she is openly lesbian.[38] She was married from 2005 to 2012.
	Jaime de los Santos		People's Party	June 11, 2019	Incumbent	De los Santos is openly gay.[39]
	Purificación Causapié		Spanish Socialist Workers' Party	June 11, 2019	June 13, 2023	Causapié is openly lesbian.[40]
	Paloma García Villa		Unidas Podemos	February 6, 2020	June 13, 2023	García Villa is openly LGBT.[41]
	Santiago Rivero		Spanish Socialist Workers' Party	June 8, 2021	Incumbent	Rivero is openly gay.[42]
	Jimena González		Más Madrid	June 14, 2023	Incumbent	González is a trans activist[43]
	Guillermo Martín		Spanish Socialist Workers' Party	June 14, 2023	Incumbent	Martín is openly LGBT

Parliament of Cantabria

Parliament of Catalonia

Senator		Party		Term		Notes
				Start	End
	Miquel Iceta		Socialists' Party of Catalonia	November 5, 1999	January 26, 2021
	Antoni Comín		Socialists' Party of Catalonia	June 28, 2004	October 5, 2010	Comín came out in 2006.[44]
			Together for Catalonia	October 26, 2015	July 30, 2018
	Santiago Vila		Democratic Convergence of Catalonia	November 10, 2006	February 12, 2013	Vila is openly gay.[45]
	Jaume Collboni		Socialists' Party of Catalonia	December 16, 2010	March 14, 2014	Collboni is openly gay and was married until 2016.[46]

Parliament of Galicia

Deputy		Party		Term		Notes
				Start	End
	Iria Carreira		Galician Nationalist Bloc	August 11, 2020	Incumbent

Parliament of La Rioja

Deputy		Party		Term		Notes
				Start	End
	Raúl Díaz		Spanish Socialist Workers' Party	July 1, 2015	Incumbent

Parliament of Navarre

Deputy		Party		Term		Notes
				Start	End
	Sergio Sayas		Navarrese People's Union	June 18, 2007	May 13, 2019
	Koldo Martínez		Geroa Bai	June 17, 2015	December 3, 2019	Martínez came out during his tenure.[3]
	Kevin Lucero		Socialist Party of Navarre	June 16, 2023	Incumbent	Lucero is openly gay[47]

Parliament of the Balearic Islands

Deputy		Party		Term		Notes
				Start	End
	Nel Martí		More for Menorca	June 1, 2011	May 2, 2019	Martí is openly gay.[48]
	Miquel Ensenyat		More for Mallorca	June 21, 2019	Incumbent	Ensenyat is openly gay.[49]

Regional Assembly of Murcia

Deputy		Party		Term		Notes
				Start	End
	Rosa Peñalver		Spanish Socialist Workers' Party	2003	2008	Peñalver is openly lesbian and married.[34]
				July 1, 2015	Incumbent
	Antonio José Espín		Spanish Socialist Workers' Party	May 16, 2019	Incumbent	Espín is openly gay.[50]
	Miguel Ángel Ortega		Spanish Socialist Workers' Party	September 14, 2023	Incumbent	Ortega is openly gay[51]

Valencian Corts

Deputy		Party		Term		Notes
				Start	End
	Francesc Ferri		Compromís	July 1, 2015	January 17, 2022	Ferri is openly gay.[52]
	Jesús Salmerón		Citizens (until 7 May 2021)	May 16, 2019	May 29, 2023	Salmerón is openly gay.[53]
			Independent (since 7 May 2021)
	Pilar Lima		Podemos	May 16, 2019	June 26, 2023
	Gerard Fullana		Compromís	September 14, 2023	Incumbent	Fullana is openly gay.[54]
	Francesc Roig		Compromís	September 14, 2023	Incumbent	Roig is openly gay.

Mayors

Mayor		Party		City	Pop. (2018)	Region	Term		Notes
							Start	End
	Francisco Maroto		Spanish Socialist Workers' Party	Campillo de Ranas	147	Castile-La Mancha	June 23, 2003	Incumbent
	Jesús Martín		Spanish Socialist Workers' Party	Valdepeñas	30,210	Castile-La Mancha	June 23, 2003	Incumbent
	Julián Aguilar		Spanish Socialist Workers' Party	Salinas de Pisuerga	319	Castile-La Mancha	June 23, 2003	Incumbent	Aguilar is openly LGBT[55]
	Miquel Ensenyat		More for Mallorca	Esporles	5,020	Balearic Islands	June 4, 2005	June 13, 2015	Ensenyat is openly gay.[49]
	Jerónimo Saavedra		Spanish Socialist Workers' Party	Las Palmas	378,517	Canary Islands	June 16, 2007	June 11, 2011
	Teodoro Sosa		Rural Nationalist Bloc-New Canaries	Gáldar	24,209	Canary Islands	July 6, 2007	Incumbent	He recognized his homosexuality in 2010.[56]
	Adrián Barbón		Spanish Socialist Workers' Party	Laviana	13,087	Asturias	September 30, 2008	October 9, 2017	[18]
	David Font		Catalan European Democratic Party	Gironella	4,916	Catalonia	June 11, 2011	Incumbent	Font is openly gay[55]
	Javier Maroto†		People's Party	Vitoria	249,176	Basque Country	June 11, 2011	June 13, 2015
	Francisco Javier Pérez Diego		Spanish Socialist Workers' Party	Clavijo	273	La Rioja	June 11, 2011	June 13, 2015	Pérez Diego is openly gay.[57]
	Lázaro Azorín		Spanish Socialist Workers' Party	Pinoso	8,142	Valencian Community	June 11, 2011	Incumbent
	Hipólito Suárez		People's Party	Moya	7,728	Canary Islands	June 11, 2011	June 15, 2019
	Ada Colau		Barcelona in Common	Barcelona	1,620,343	Catalonia	June 13, 2015	June 17, 2023	Colau came out as bisexual in 2017.[58]
	Jaume Collboni		Socialists' Party of Catalonia				17 June 2023	Incumbent
	Vicent Muñoz		Compromís	Font de la Figuera	2,038	Valencian Community	June 13, 2015	June 17, 2023	Muñoz is openly gay.[56]
	Rafael Martínez		Spanish Socialist Workers' Party	San Martín de la Vega	18,784	Community of Madrid	June 13, 2015	Incumbent	Martínez is openly gay.[56]
	Óscar Antúnez		Spanish Socialist Workers' Party	Hoyos	906	Extremadura	June 13, 2015	Incumbent	Antúnez is openly gay.[56]
	Luis Viejo		Spanish Socialist Workers' Party	Brihuega	2,399	Castile-La Mancha	June 13, 2015	Incumbent	Viejo is openly gay.[56]
	Javier Silva		Socialists' Party of Catalonia	Polinyá	8,389	Catalonia	June 13, 2015	Incumbent	Silva is openly gay.[56]
	Rubén García		Spanish Socialist Workers' Party	Torrecaballeros	1,323	Castile and León	June 13, 2015	Incumbent	García is openly gay.[56]
	Koldo Goitia		Basque Nationalist Party	Lekeitio	7,258	Basque Country	June 13, 2015	June 17, 2023	Goitia is openly gay[55]
	Noelia García		People's Party	Los Llanos de Aridane	20,648	Canary Islands	June 13, 2015	June 17, 2023	García is openly LGBT[55]
	Samuel Falomir		Spanish Socialist Workers' Party	L'Alcora	10,430	Valencian Community	June 10, 2017	Incumbent	Falomir is openly gay.[56]
	Jordi Ballart		Tot per Terrassa	Terrassa	218,535	Catalonia	June 15, 2017	Incumbent	Ballart is openly gay and married.[56]
	Darío Moreno		Spanish Socialist Workers' Party	Sagunto	65,669	Valencian Community	June 15, 2019	Incumbent	Moreno is openly gay.[56]
	José Veira		People's Party	Los Molares	3,460	Andalusia	June 15, 2019	Incumbent	Veira is openly gay.[56]
	Diego Ortiz-González		Spanish Socialist Workers' Party	Pinto	51,541	Community of Madrid	June 15, 2019	June 17, 2023	Ortiz-González is openly gay and married.[56]
	Óscar Relaño		Spanish Socialist Workers' Party	Mandayona	297	Castile-La Mancha	June 15, 2019	Incumbent	Relaño is openly gay.[56]
	Aritz Abaroa		Basque Nationalist Party	Bermeo	16,688	Basque Country	June 15, 2019	June 17, 2023
	Cristian Delgado		Spanish Socialist Workers' Party	Barruelo de Santullán	1,183	Castile and León	June 15, 2019	Incumbent	Delgado is openly gay.[59]
	Luis María Egurrola		Basque Nationalist Party	Markina-Xemein	4,934	Basque Country	June 15, 2019	June 17, 2023
	Samuel Martín		Spanish Socialist Workers' Party	Pasarón de la Vera	641	Extremadura	June 15, 2019	Incumbent
	Víctor Morugij		Spanish Socialist Workers' Party	El Barco de Ávila	2,298	Castile and León	June 15, 2019	June 17, 2023	Morugij is openly gay.[60]
	Alberto Merchante		Spanish Socialist Workers' Party	Albalate de Zorita	1,080	Castile-La Mancha	December 7, 2016	June 17, 2023	Merchante is openly gay[61]
	Virginia Hernández		Valladolid Toma la Palabra [es]	San Pelayo	48	Castile and León	June 15, 2019	June 17, 2023	Hernández is openly LGBT[62]
	Carlos Valle		Spanish Socialist Workers' Party	Cudillero	5,078	Asturias	June 15, 2019	Incumbent	Valle is openly LGBT[55]
	Alfonso Caja		Spanish Socialist Workers' Party	La Estrella	205	Castile-La Mancha	June 15, 2019	Incumbent	Caja is openly gay[55]
	Sergio Parra		Citizens	Valdemoro	77,587	Community of Madrid	June 15, 2019	June 17, 2023	Parra is openly LGBT[55]
	Marco Antonio González		Spanish Socialist Workers' Party	Puerto de la Cruz	30,179	Canary Islands	June 15, 2019	Incumbent	González is openly LGBT[55]
	Rubén Gómez Buil		Spanish Socialist Workers' Party	Santorcaz	822	Community of Madrid	June 15, 2019	June 17, 2023	Gómez is openly LGBT[63]
	Adrián Álvarez		United Left	Fuenterrobles	682	Valencian Community	June 15, 2019	Incumbent	Álvarez is openly gay[64]
	Antonio Muñoz		Spanish Socialist Workers' Party	Seville	688,711	Andalusia	January 3, 2022	June 17, 2023	Muñoz is openly gay.[65]
	Jesús Salmerón		People’s Party	Gátova	412	Valencian Community	June 17, 2023	Incumbent
	Antonio Moreno		People’s Party	Carcelén	483	Castile-La Mancha	June 17, 2023	Incumbent	Moreno is openly gay and former sex actor[66]
	Pablo Ruz		People’s Party	Elche	234,765	Valencian Community	June 17, 2023	Incumbent	Ruz is openly gay[12]
	Rubén García de Andrés		Spanish Socialist Workers' Party	Torrecaballeros	1,496	Castile and León	June 17, 2023	Incumbent	García de Andrés is openly gay[67]

See also

• LGBT rights in Spain