Contents:
- WERE SPA'S TWO ARTISTIC LEGENDS SECRET GAY LOVERS?
- SALVADOR DALí: ASEXUAL (AND NOT GAY) SPE MISTER IRENE MONTERO
- SALVADOR DALí: ASEXUAL (Y NO GAY) PE A LA MISTRA IRENE MONTERO
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.
SALVADOR DALí: ASEXUAL (AND NOT GAY) SPE MISTER IRENE MONTERO
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 . “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 . There is a well-found spicn that Salvador Dalí died a virg and that circumstance is what mak impossible to firmly assure that he was homosexual. Some sourc dite that, more than homosexual, what he disliked was sex self, which he intified, unr the fluence of his father, wh disease and rottenns of the body.
It was a stormy and ambiguo relatnship, impossible to summarize a meme: the unrlyg issue is that Lor's sexualy is not parable to that of the current gay man om Malasaña - several vers of Poeta en Nueva York he evinced what today would be lled plumophobia -, which shows that a lot of public office stays wh the cliché, but not wh the substance.
SALVADOR DALí: ASEXUAL (Y NO GAY) PE A LA MISTRA IRENE MONTERO
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.