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Spain reclaims Federico García Lorca as a gay icon
Original: ‘His voice was too queer – so they silenced him’: how Spain’s national poet Federico García Lorca finally became a gay i
New work in Spain is openly addressing the homosexuality of Federico García Lorca, the country's national poet, which was long suppressed. Interest has surged around recent projects, including the film La Bola de nieve, as Spaniards reassess how the poet and playwright's sexuality was silenced for decades after his 1936 murder at the start of the Civil War.
Why now: A wave of recent films and cultural work is finally confronting the censorship around Lorca's sexuality.
Federico García LorcaSpainLa Bola de nieve
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- ‘His voice was too queer – so they silenced him’: how Spain’s national poet Federico García Lorca finally became a gay icon. The significance of the poet and playwright’s homosexuality was repressed in Spain for decades – but a spate of recent work, including the film La Bola… · mf_magazine@mastodon.mediafaro.org · 2
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