PRIDE MONTH + Gay History – June 5: Torch Song Trilogy, Feri Garcia Lor, The Commtee for Homosexual Freedom and MORE!
Contents:
- “LOR AND THE GAY WORLD”
- WERE SPA'S TWO ARTISTIC LEGENDS SECRET GAY LOVERS?
- GAY CULTURE: LOR, FERI GARCIA–SPA’S GREAT POET AND PLAYWRIGHT (LGBTQ, GAY)
- PRIDE MONTH GAY HISTORY – JUNE 5: TORCH SONG TRILOGY, FERI GARCIA LOR, THE COMMTEE FOR HOMOSEXUAL FREEDOM, AND MORE.
- CHAPTER FOUR: LOR AS GAY IN
“LOR AND THE GAY WORLD”
Feri Garcia Lor Feri Garcia Lor, image by Ciudad Crepcular Feri Garcia Lor was born 1889 Spa. Throughout his life, he worked as a playwright, a theatre director, and a poet. He gaed regnn when he joed Generatn of '27, a group prised of Spanish poets who wanted to share their avant-gar poetry and art wh people. Many people don't regnize Lor as an LGBT poet. Lor's homosexualy was somethg that he stggled wh throughout his whole reer. Ocsnally, appeared his work, but wasn't an inty he uld proudly share. As an article 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." Lor's bgrapher, Ian Gibson, explaed that his "works were censored to nceal his sexualy." It wasn't until nearly 45 years after his ath that his sexualy was wily acknowledged and accepted. As Gibson said, was bee "Spa uldn't accept that the greatt Spanish poet of all time was homosexual." Lor worked closely wh Salvador Dali, a Spanish surrealist artist, and the two beme long-time iends. It was mored that their iendship went further, and the two exchanged letters throughout their relatnship. Salvador Dali and Feri Garcia Lor, image om 24 Horas In 1936, Lor was assassated by Spanish fascists for his right socialist views. 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." Scholars and poets are able to read Lor's work and unrstand the impact he ma, not only the poetry world but wh the LGBT muny. Poem by Feri Garcia Lor * garcia lorca gay *
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 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. )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.
WERE SPA'S TWO ARTISTIC LEGENDS SECRET GAY LOVERS?
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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. 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. 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.
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.
GAY CULTURE: LOR, FERI GARCIA–SPA’S GREAT POET AND PLAYWRIGHT (LGBTQ, GAY)
And while thoands of polil dissints and other prisoners were pardoned a year later, homosexuals uld still be jailed as “social dangers” until 1979. ”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. 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. "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.
A fay spokwoman, Lra Garcia Lor, says they never talked of her uncle's homosexualy when her father was alive. However my Aunt Isabel [who died 2002] spoke openly her later years about homosexualy, and me to accept as somethg natural.
PRIDE MONTH GAY HISTORY – JUNE 5: TORCH SONG TRILOGY, FERI GARCIA LOR, THE COMMTEE FOR HOMOSEXUAL FREEDOM, AND MORE.
“Entre los hombr, entre s amigos… Lor ocultaba su homosexualidad”, asegura en una entrevista n el portal El Español, el perdista y cror Aníbal Malvar, tor una bgrafía novelada Lor llamada “Lucero”“Lor mantenía ocultas s querencias sexual a partir figuras mujer en su poía. Él lo vivía n naturalidad, nque n una discreción tremenda”, revela Malvar en su nota n El Españ el libro tulado “Vida, pasión y muerte Feri García Lor (1896-1936)”, Ian Gibson, se brda más rmación n rpecto al poeta y gen, n base, entre otras fuent, en la rmación que Isabel García Lor plasma en “Recuerdos míos (2002)” y la obra Francis García Lor “Feri y su mundo (1980)” los primeros soos que Feri cribió joven se pue ver que hay una “naciente toma nciencia homosexual”, asegura Gibson. Mientras crece, el cror granado va scubriendo la extensión la poía, nstyendo su obra o un reflejo los tor que lee y que, a su vez, sirven toexploración, sobre s tenncias homosexual o bisexual, n las referencias que encuentra en los textos Platón y otros tor la antigua Grecia y su diferencia ante la homosexualidad.
Buñuel aseguró que Lor lo llevó a valorar la poía: “fui transformándome po a po ante un mundo nuevo que él iba revelándome día tras día”, y aceptó que su relación n el cror llegó a ser muy trecha, a par la nocida homofobia l ceasta aragonés, quien, según reña Gibson, se placía rerdando su afición a pegarle a nocidos homosexual a la salida los urars públis en Madrid. Se asegura que Buñuel tardó en darse cuenta los gtos su pañero y reprentativa una disción, cluida por Ian Gibson en su ensayo, entre Lor y un vas nombre Martín Domínguez, quien propagó el mor entre todos s amigos que Lor era gay.
Eventualmente realizarían las pac, pero Lor aseguró que se stió “herido en lo más vivo” tambien cror José “Pepín” Bello rerdaba que cuando él, Buñuel y otros amigos “iban putas” tenían cuidado no cirlo ante Feri, que “era extremadamente pudoroso en cuanto a su vida personal y, nque no daba la imprión ser homosexual, todos sabían que lo era”.
CHAPTER FOUR: LOR AS GAY IN
Según el críti Rafael Santos Torroella el ptor no hablaba sobre su vida o clo las ndía; más, Santos Torroella asegura tar nvencido que la paranoia Dalí se bía a su fuerzo por ristir s tenncias homosexualidad en la vida y obra l poeta fue una dura peba para su épo, cuando muchos se ataban o, en el mejor los sos, se alejaban quien tuviera preferencias diferent, lo que llevó a Lor no hablar l tema en su vida públi, pero no fue impedimento para que pudiera vivirla y plasmarla en su poí LEYENDO:. Bs and piec om here and there have helped to prehend the full story of this child, young and homosexual man, fillg the gaps which for other publitns are enigmas, but for are pretty obv.