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)
- CHAPTER FOUR: LOR AS GAY IN
- PRIDE MONTH GAY HISTORY – JUNE 5: TORCH SONG TRILOGY, FERI GARCIA LOR, THE COMMTEE FOR HOMOSEXUAL FREEDOM, AND MORE.
“LOR AND THE GAY WORLD”
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. * lorca gay *
)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.
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.
WERE SPA'S TWO ARTISTIC LEGENDS SECRET GAY LOVERS?
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 * 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. 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.
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.
GAY CULTURE: LOR, FERI GARCIA–SPA’S GREAT POET AND PLAYWRIGHT (LGBTQ, GAY)
* lorca 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.
However my Aunt Isabel [who died 2002] spoke openly her later years about homosexualy, and me to accept as somethg natural. 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+.
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.
CHAPTER FOUR: LOR AS GAY IN
PRIDE MONTH + Gay History – June 5: Torch Song Trilogy, Feri Garcia Lor, The Commtee for Homosexual Freedom and MORE! * lorca gay *
Lo mismo ocurre n su bgrafía y n el venir s accn: nque Lor no fue un activista o tal ni trabajó forma expra por los rechos LGTBI+ –algo, por otro lado, bastante difícil ncebir en la épo en la que vivió–, sí que vivió su sexualidad una forma parcialmente libre y s prejuics; tuvo diversas parejas, se relacnó n multud hombr y cribió obras y rtas ntenido cutnablemente homosexual. Cuando hace años leí Poeta en Nueva York –en la edición María Clementa Millán para Cátedra–, no jé preguntarme durante toda la lectura por qué no había en todo el libro una sola alión a la homosexualidad l poeta.
PRIDE MONTH GAY HISTORY – JUNE 5: TORCH SONG TRILOGY, FERI GARCIA LOR, THE COMMTEE FOR HOMOSEXUAL FREEDOM, AND MORE.
Ahora rto el tema la sexualidad l cror a raíz un libro que leí hace un tiempo, en el que se puen enntrar párrafos o te: “En 1987 la edorial Cátedra, Madrid, publicó, en su prtigsa lección Letras Hispánis, sendas edicn, a rgo María Clementa Millán, Poeta en Nueva York y El Públi (…) En ambas se eludió rigurosamente cualquier entar sobre la homosexualidad l poeta y su relación n la obra”. La obra, que rege un sentimiento tan idénti a lo que yo mismo experimenté al leer a edición Poeta en Nueva York, Lor y el mundo gay, Ian Gibson. Al rpecto l tema la edición Poeta en Nueva York María Clementa Millán, Ian Gibson sentencia: “¿Por qué no se dieron cuenta l talante homofóbi Millán ant publir ambos tomos?
Para más mutra a evinte homofobia la edición Cátedra, otro botón: ¿Cómo posible que, nuevo, la profora María Clementa Millán no haga una sola alión directa al tema homosexual o clave terpretativa l texto El públi nteniendo la obra cenas o ta? Este texto, tema “anmente homosexual” –o el prop Lor renocería en una rta–, a día hoy se suele leer o una exprión bastante clara l sgarro l poeta, la soledad que le suponía tener que seguir llevando una vida doble, una másra. No se trata ir a la anécdota morbosa y facilona –Lor tuvo numerosos amant, la mayoría ellos más que attiguados hoy en día–, so analizar el impacto real que ser gay a ienzos l siglo XX tuvo sobre su forma ncebir la poía, la leratura y su propia vida.
A te rpecto, seguir manteniendo, o muchos adémis e vtigador añejos han hecho hasta nutros días, que el hecho que Lor fuera homosexual no tiene una mayor importancia para analizar el trasfondo toda su obra absurdo.