Pedro Zerolo

Pedro González Zerolo (Born 1960 in Caracas; died 9 June 2015 in Madrid) was a Spanish lawyer, politician and a town councilman of the city of Madrid, and a member of the Federal Executive Committee of the PSOE where he held the position of Secretary for Social Movements and Relations with NGOs. He was also a trustee of the Fundacion IDEAS, Spain's Socialist Party's think tank.

Zerolo was also one of the most important LGBT activists in Spanish history and one of the biggest promoters of extending the right to marriage and adoption to homosexual couples in the country. Zerolo has become a gay icon among the Spanish LGBT community.

Zerolo was born in Caracas, Venezuela, where his father lived in exile from the Francoist government. It was born in a natural family of the Canary Islands, concretely of the island of Tenerife. His father Pedro González was the first mayor of San Cristóbal de La Laguna (Tenerife) in times of democracy and well-known painter.

Pedro Zerolo studied law at the University of La Laguna on Tenerife, where he spent his childhood and adolescence. After gaining his diploma, he moved to Madrid, where he continued his studies, focusing on comparative law. At the same time, he collaborated with Catholic priest Enrique de Castro in a project to help the people of the poor Madrid barrio of Entrevías.

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