"The Plaza de Pedro Zerolo, the vibrant heart of Madrid's Chueca neighborhood, is a public square located in the center of Spain's ancient capitol. Named for one of the most prominent figures in the country's crusade to win equal rights for its LGBT residents, it is not only a tribute in the community he championed, but also "a monument to remember all the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals who have been persecuted throughout the centuries for their sexual orientation and gender identity.""
"Pedro Zerolo was born in 1960 in Caracas, Venezuela; his father, a painter and progressive civic leader, had moved there from Tenerife, the largest of Spain's Canary Islands, as a republican exile of the Spanish civil war. After the fall of Spain's fascist government in 1975, his family returned to the island, where Zerolo completed a law degree before moving to Madrid in 1982."
The Plaza de Pedro Zerolo in Madrid's Chueca honors a central figure in Spain's LGBT rights movement and commemorates persecuted sexual and gender minorities. Pedro Zerolo was born in 1960 in Caracas to a family exiled from Tenerife; the family returned after 1975. He completed a law degree and moved to Madrid in 1982. Zerolo served as legal consultant for Colectivo Gay de Madrid from 1992, helped create the Spanish Federation of Lesbians, Gays, Transsexuals, and Bisexuals and served as its president beginning in 1998. He was elected to Madrid's City Council in 2004 and became a principal civil rights advisor to Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, taking a leading role in securing marriage equality.
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