Chapter Four: Lor as Gay In - The receptn of Feri Garcia Lor and his ral trilogy
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.
GAY CULTURE: LOR, FERI GARCIA–SPA’S GREAT POET AND PLAYWRIGHT (LGBTQ, GAY)
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.
PRIDE MONTH GAY HISTORY – JUNE 5: TORCH SONG TRILOGY, FERI GARCIA LOR, THE COMMTEE FOR HOMOSEXUAL FREEDOM, AND MORE.
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.
CHAPTER FOUR: LOR AS GAY IN
"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.