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.
WERE SPA'S TWO ARTISTIC LEGENDS SECRET GAY LOVERS?
“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. 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.