Perhaps knowing there’s a market* for sweeping, lesbian period dramas, Netflix acquired the 2019 Spanish film, Elisa & Marcela, from prolific Spanish director Isabel Coixet. Starring Natalia de ...

Elisa and Marcela is inspired by the remarkable true story of the controversial 1901 nuptials between Marcela Gracia Ibeas and Elisa Sanchez Loriga, hailed as the first same-sex marriage in Spain.

Two women, Marcela Gracia Ibeas and Elisa Sanchez Loriga, attempted to get married in A Coruña (Galicia, Spain). To achieve it Elisa had to adopt a male identity: Mario Sánchez, as listed on the ...