"And you, how many lesbians do you know?" The question is asked by Isabel Franc, lesbian writer and activist, co-author with Rosa Navarro of Behind the blinds, a comic about the silence that has historically surrounded lesbianism. In fact, trans women and gay men were the only faces of Franco's repression and the fight for the rights of the LGBTQ+ community, which has gained acronyms over the years. In the images from the period that photographers like Colita did in the first demonstrations at the end of the 70s, lesbian women (those that refer to the L) do not appear. "Trans women stood up "because they had nothing to lose and were already visible," Franc replies.

The approval of same-sex marriage twenty years ago represented the achievement of a civil right for the LGBTI community, the "normalization" of same-sex couples, and even more so for lesbian women. This is emphasized by activist and artist Alpe Conceptes, who since he was a teenager during the late Franco era had been active in the Barcelona scene—where he met those who were the great figures in the community's struggle—and who, under Dutch law, had formalized his union with his male partner before a notary in 1910, a ceremony that ended with a family meal. Years later, in 2000, the couple separated and returned to the notary to rewrite their respective wills. At that time, same-sex marriage was not on the social agenda, and Llucià Ainsa lived her homosexuality behind closed doors, far from LGBTI demands and struggle.