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This short article evaluates the changing and conflictive discourse and practice around homosexuality over the twentieth century in Spain and Portugal. The Iberian states were under dictatorship at the time of the Stonewall riots in 1969. Despite the repressive legislation introduced in both countries, it is possible to discern resistance against the law and against a general climate of social opprobrium. Rather than seeing Stonewall as a starting point or an obligatory definitive reference for 'gay liberation', the experience of LGBT people in Iberia allows us re-evaluate the history of sexuality against the backdrop of authoritarian regimes, the colonial past and acts of resistance, however small, for a critical history of LGBT life in Europe and beyond.

Spain's relationship with Islam is both phobic and -philic, attitudes revealed in policy and practice throughout the country. This paper examines the ways in which Spain's unique multicultural, multi-religious past affects the nation's present, specifically with regard to tourism. The aim is to situate Spanish concerns amongst the broader context of cultural tourism by exposing how Spain's history is concurrently sold to Muslims and non-Muslims and providing insight into how the representation of this history reflects (or rejects) the nation's current circumstances. Although Spain's tourist industry often capitalizes on Iberia's Islamic past, marketing the peninsula as a leading destination for both "halal tourism" and for those seeking glimpses of medieval al-Andalus, Christian-Muslim tensions continue to plague the nation as controversies, prejudice, and violence abound.

In the northeastern Algarve, Portugal, semi-dispersed settlements and property fragmentation evidently had coexisted with a predominantly nuclear family household pattern since the midnineteenth century, suggesting that a small holding pattern of land tenure need not always lead to a stem-family household as is so often true in other areas of Iberia. Other comparisons, drawn between the Algarve and the adjacent region of Alentejo, suggest that regional variation is strong on all measures and poses an interesting challenge to social scientific explanation.