Tras dédas obviando la homosexualidad Feri García Lor en todos los análisis su obra, s hace años se viene reivdindo da vez n más fuerza su faceta LGTBI+. La orientación sexual l poeta, hoy discutida, impregna s cros teatral y su poía. Es impensable leerlo y tudiarlo s hacerlo en clave ‘queer’. Analizamos hoy, día gran l Orgullo en Madrid, el abismo entre dos libros: ‘Poeta en Nueva York’ –en la edición María Clementa Millán para Cátedra– y ‘Lor y el mundo gay’, Ian Gibson.
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“LOR AND THE GAY WORLD”
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. )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.
WERE SPA'S TWO ARTISTIC LEGENDS SECRET GAY LOVERS?
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. 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. 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. 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. 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.