Crossing through ChuecaIn the past two decades the city of Madrid has been marked by pride, feminism, and globalizationbut also by the vestiges of the machismo nurtured during the long years of the Franco dictatorship. Crossing through Chueca examines how lesbian literary culture fares in this mix from the end of the countercultural movement la movida madrilea in 1988 until the gay marriage march in 2005. Jill Robbins traverses the various literary spaces of the city