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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
• EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS DALI
• IS KENZA DALI GAY OR LBIAN? KENZA DALI BOYIEND/ HBAND
• DID THE DALAI LAMA ENDORSE GAY MARRIAGE?

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. 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 .

SALVADOR DALí: ASEXUAL (AND NOT GAY) SPE MISTER 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.

SALVADOR DALí: ASEXUAL (Y NO GAY) PE A LA MISTRA IRENE MONTERO

“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.

EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS DALI

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. I did not have the Dalai Lama beg outed as a gay pedophile on my bgo rd. Masturbatn, neverthels, filled Dali wh fear bee was at the time believed to e impotence, homosexualy, and sany.

Quizás por o, lo hayan García Lor (i) y Salvador Dalí, tomada en Cadaqués, en 1927, por la hermana l ptor, Ana Marí la sospecha fundada que Salvador Dalí murió virgen y a circunstancia la que impi asegurar n rotundidad que fuera homosexual. Algunas fuent din que, más que homosexual, lo que le disgtaba era el sexo en sí, que intifiba, por fluencia su padre, n la enfermedad y la putrefacción l cuerpo. Fue una relación tormentosa y ambigua, imposible rumir en un meme: el tema fondo que la sexualidad Lor no equiparable a la l gay actual Malasaña -en vars versos Poeta en Nueva York evinciaba lo que hoy se diría plumofobia-, lo que mutra que mucho rgo públi se queda n el cliché, pero no n el fondo.

Salvador Dalí - Life of a surrealistImage source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Dalí's wife, Gala, died 1982 - after which he is said to have lost much of his zt for lifeBorn on 11 May 1904 Figuer, Catalonia, SpaProduced more than 1, 500 patgs throughout his reerMarried Elena Ivanovna Diakonova - or Gala - 1934; they had no childrenThe uple had an open marriage and regularly held i at their hoe - though Dalí is said to have watched rather than participatedDied 23 January 1989 FiguerHis close iendship wh the gay poet Feri García Lor has fuelled speculatn that Dalí was homosexual, although Ian Gibson believ they never nsummated their Lozano, who was for a time part of the pater's ner circle, told the bgrapher that "Dalí was totally unable to have any sexual relatns wh anybody, not even, probably, wh Gala... Dali is said to have been a homosexual relatnship wh poet Feri García Lor, but is also moured to have ed masturbatn as his near sole source of sexual gratifitn.

IS KENZA DALI GAY OR LBIAN? KENZA DALI BOYIEND/ HBAND

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DID THE DALAI LAMA ENDORSE GAY MARRIAGE?

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