(PDF) Reviews of Pl Bdg, <i>Lor: The Gay Imagatn</i>, and Ángel Sahuquillo, <i>Feri García Lor y la cultura la homosexualidad. Lor, Dalí, Cernuda, Gil-Albert, Prados y la voz silenciada l amor homosexual</i> | Daniel Eisenberg

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“LOR AND THE GAY WORLD”

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)Earlier this month Spa, Ian Gibson, Lor’s bgrapher, published “Lor y el mundo Gay, ” his fourth book about the poet he’s studied for more than forty years. Acrdg to early reviews, Gibson mak a strong se that the poet’s tortured relatnship to his homosexualy is an overlooked rnerstone of his work.

Lor’s wrg, nsired eply homoerotic, was banned until 1954 and censored until 1975. He is also known for documentg the perd which his subjects lived; here he lv to Spa’s history of homophobia.

He says that “Lor y el mundo gay” is his fal book, and wh he full circle, returng to Lor’s executn and argug that was motivated by sexualy as well as polics.

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In a recent terview, Gibson said, Spa uldn’t accept that the greatt Spanish poet of all time was homosexual. Homophobia existed on both sis the Civil War and afterwards; was a natnal problem. Photograph: Quique PalomoLike the bgraphy, offers a portra of what Gibson lls Lor’s “spir of generosy” and his fence of the margalised and fotten, be they women, black people or those who, like the poet himself, are gay.

“He’s gay and ’s taken a long time to get the Spanish to accept that – cludg his own fay, ” says Gibson.

“His relatnship wh Salvador Dalí and other people is que explic, as is his homosexualy.

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Many regnised his homosexualy om the start, but for s Spa's lerary tablishment, and even his own fay, refed to acknowledge that the untry's bt loved poet, Feri Garcia Lor, was gay.

Now his bgrapher, Ian Gibson, has nclive evince that Lor's poetic achievements sprang om his lifelong tratn at ncealg his Lor y el mundo gay (Lor and the Gay World), published Spanish on Monday, Gibson scrib how the poet's works were censored to nceal his sexualy. Gibson blam the s of silence on a ep-seated Spanish homophobia.

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"Spa uldn't accept that the greatt Spanish poet of all time was homosexual. Homophobia existed on both sis the civil war and afterwards; was a natnal problem.

"Some amics who regnised the tth "suggted the poet's homosexualy was alien to his poetic creativy", Gibson wr of the man he's studied for 40 years. "After Lor was assassated by ath squads Augt 1936, at the start of Spa's civil war, his brother Francis and sister Isabel ma every effort to expunge any trace of homosexualy om his life and work, Gibson claims.

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A fay spokwoman, Lra Garcia Lor, says they never talked of her uncle's homosexualy when her father was alive.

It was difficult for my father to accept the homosexualy of his brother. However my Aunt Isabel [who died 2002] spoke openly her later years about homosexualy, and me to accept as somethg natural.

"I disvered an anguished, tortured – gay – love... Those who ny his homosexualy mt now shut up, or at least qutn their prejudic.

REVIEWS OF PL BDG, <I>LOR: THE GAY IMAGATN</I>, AND ÁNGEL SAHUQUILLO, <I>FERI GARCíA LOR Y LA CULTURA LA HOMOSEXUALIDAD. LOR, DALí, CERNUDA, GIL-ALBERT, PRADOS Y LA VOZ SILENCIADA L AMOR HOMOSEXUAL</I>REVIEWS OF PL BDG, <I>LOR: THE GAY IMAGATN</I>, AND ÁNGEL SAHUQUILLO, <I>FERI GARCíA LOR Y LA CULTURA LA HOMOSEXUALIDAD. LOR, DALí, CERNUDA, GIL-ALBERT, PRADOS Y LA VOZ SILENCIADA L AMOR HOMOSEXUAL</I>REVIEWS OF PL BDG, <I>LOR: THE GAY IMAGATN</I>, AND ÁNGEL SAHUQUILLO, <I>FERI GARCíA LOR Y LA CULTURA LA HOMOSEXUALIDAD. LOR, DALí, CERNUDA, GIL-ALBERT, PRADOS Y LA VOZ SILENCIADA L AMOR HOMOSEXUAL</I>REVIEWS OF PL BDG, <I>LOR: THE GAY IMAGATN</I>, AND ÁNGEL SAHUQUILLO, <I>FERI GARCíA LOR Y LA CULTURA LA HOMOSEXUALIDAD. LOR, DALí, CERNUDA, GIL-ALBERT, PRADOS Y LA VOZ SILENCIADA L AMOR HOMOSEXUAL</I>REVIEWS OF PL BDG, <I>LOR: THE GAY IMAGATN</I>, AND ÁNGEL SAHUQUILLO, <I>FERI GARCíA LOR Y LA CULTURA LA HOMOSEXUALIDAD. LOR, DALí, CERNUDA, GIL-ALBERT, PRADOS Y LA VOZ SILENCIADA L AMOR HOMOSEXUAL</I>

And she hop that her film will help give voice to those people who were explaed that durg Francis Fran’s dictatorship (1939-1975), homosexualy was first ma illegal, and then changed om a “crime” to a “mental illns, ” where mostly homosexual men like Lor were herd to prison mps and locked up mental hospals—some even gettg electric shock as “treatment. And while thoands of polil dissints and other prisoners were pardoned a year later, homosexuals uld still be jailed as “social dangers” until 1979.

Acrdg to LGBTQ activists Spa, almost 4, 000 people were locked up for homosexualy durg Fran´s dictatorship. ”Weiss’ film will also document how the women survived secrecy durg the dictatorship—lbian upl kept up appearanc by gog on double dat wh gay upl, and created a d language where they referred to themselv public as “libreras” (booksellers), among other, almost 4 s after the laws crimalizg homosexualy have been repelled Spa, the ernment has pensated the first lbian for havg been sentenced to “re-tn” 60-year-old woman, who is simply referred to as “María, ” told the Spanish newspaper El País a phone terview that regnn for her and all those who were persecuted is important. Lor’s homosexualy was somethg that he stggled wh throughout his whole reer.

As an article om The Inpennt explas, “for s Spa’s lerary tablishment, and even his own fay, refed to acknowledge that the untry’s bt loved poets, Feri Garcia Lor, was gay.

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