Overview

• The lieutenant colonel’s death was reported on Monday by national media and publicly noted by Pedro Sánchez in a message on X.
• Sánchez Silva served in the Cuerpo Jurídico Militar during his Army career.
• He publicly declared his homosexuality in 2000 at age 49 in the magazine Zero.
• He is widely regarded as the first senior Spanish military officer to make such a disclosure.
• He later left the Army, alleging he was consigned to ostracism after coming out.