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Contents:

• WERE SPA'S TWO ARTISTIC LEGENDS SECRET GAY LOVERS?
• SALVADOR DALí: ASEXUAL (Y NO GAY) PE A LA MISTRA IRENE MONTERO
• LTLE ASH: SALVADOR DALí'S BIG GAY MTACHE PARTY!

WERE SPA'S TWO ARTISTIC LEGENDS SECRET GAY LOVERS?

A new film is to pict a gay love affair between Salvador Dali, the eccentric master of the avant-gar, and his fellow Spaniard Feri Garcia Lor, the doomed dramatist and Ash, a UK-Spanish productn, is set the cultural and polil tumult of Twenti Madrid and follows the tense iendship of three revolutnary young artists: Dali, Lor and the Surrealist film maker Luis Bunuel.

Although a physilly timate relatnship between the men has long been moured, Dali told terviewers more than once that he rejected the homosexual Lor's attempts to sce him. He was homosexual, as everyone knows, and madly love wh me, ' he said, acrdg to Ala Bosquet's 1969 Conversatns wh Dali. I was extremely annoyed, bee I wasn't homosexual, and I wasn't terted givg .

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. As Gibson said, was bee “Spa uldn’t accept that the greatt Spanish poet of all time was homosexual.

SALVADOR DALí: ASEXUAL (Y NO GAY) PE A LA MISTRA IRENE MONTERO

As a police report om the cint scrib, he was killed for beg a “eemason belongg to the Alhambra lodge” and someone who partook “homosexual and abnormal practice. The i at his home were often for Dali a spectacle to watch, and he is believed to have had homosexual tennci. Dpe Dali’s sexual hang-ups and mours that he was gay, they nsummated their marriage the followg year, but they never had children.

“He was homosexual, as everyone knows, and madly love wh me. He tried to screw me twice… I was extremely annoyed, bee I wasn’t homosexual, and I wasn’t terted givg .

LTLE ASH: SALVADOR DALí'S BIG GAY MTACHE PARTY!

Dali is said to have been a homosexual relatnship wh poet Feri García Lor, but is also moured to have ed masturbatn as his near sole source of sexual gratifitn. Quizás por o, lo hayan García Lor (i) y Salvador Dalí, tomada en Cadaqués, en 1927, por la hermana l ptor, Ana Marí la sospecha fundada que Salvador Dalí murió virgen y a circunstancia la que impi asegurar n rotundidad que fuera homosexual.

Algunas fuent din que, más que homosexual, lo que le disgtaba era el sexo en sí, que intifiba, por fluencia su padre, n la enfermedad y la putrefacción l cuerpo. Fue una relación tormentosa y ambigua, imposible rumir en un meme: el tema fondo que la sexualidad Lor no equiparable a la l gay actual Malasaña -en vars versos Poeta en Nueva York evinciaba lo que hoy se diría plumofobia-, lo que mutra que mucho rgo públi se queda n el cliché, pero no n el fondo. Salvador Dalí - Life of a surrealistImage source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Dalí's wife, Gala, died 1982 - after which he is said to have lost much of his zt for lifeBorn on 11 May 1904 Figuer, Catalonia, SpaProduced more than 1, 500 patgs throughout his reerMarried Elena Ivanovna Diakonova - or Gala - 1934; they had no childrenThe uple had an open marriage and regularly held i at their hoe - though Dalí is said to have watched rather than participatedDied 23 January 1989 FiguerHis close iendship wh the gay poet Feri García Lor has fuelled speculatn that Dalí was homosexual, although Ian Gibson believ they never nsummated their Lozano, who was for a time part of the pater's ner circle, told the bgrapher that "Dalí was totally unable to have any sexual relatns wh anybody, not even, probably, wh Gala...

Lor is clearly gay; Dalí is not.