Felix Alvarez single-handedly started a revolution to end legal discrimination against Gibraltar’s LGBT community. The groundswell this created led to same-sex couples finally being granted the right to a civil partnership at the end of March 2014. Charlotte Simmonds hears his story.
When I meet the Gibraltarian civil rights activist Felix Alvarez in London, just two weeks have passed since civil partnerships were legalised in the territory. The new law, which grants the right for both heterosexual and same-sex couples to enter into these arrangements, was a moment 14 years in the making. It was a moment whose roots lay in the year 2000, when the man sitting opposite me acted with forthright passion to end legal discrimination against Gibraltar’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) residents by founding the Rock’s first gay rights group. It was a moment that made waves.
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