The publisher Planeta has just launched the book "Lorca y El Mundo Gay" in Spain, which reveals details of the poet Federico García Lorca's frustrated homosexual relationships.
Written by Irish historian Ian Gibson, one of the greatest researchers into Lorca's life, the work explicitly associates the Spanish poet's plots and verses with his homosexuality. In an interview with the newspaper Folha de S. Paulo, Gibson says that it was only possible to release the book after Lorca's brothers had died, because, according to him, the poet's homosexuality was considered a taboo.
"In Lorca's case, his brother couldn't handle his homosexuality and that's why it was difficult for Spanish critics to write about it. Previous generations were homophobic. There was a kind of censorship", says the historian. For Gibson, Lorca "was a gay man who couldn't live his life, this is essential to understanding the work" of the Spanish poet.
In the interview, Gibson says that the only time the word "homosexual" appears in a work by Lorca is in the play "El Público", which the poet wrote between New York and Cuba. "It's a whole story of disguises and characters who cannot express their lives, who live in simulacra", says the historian.
According to Gibson, one of the poet's few successful relationships was with the sculptor Emilio Aladrén. "We know little because we don't have their correspondence. He was very handsome, he wasn't gay or bisexual, but he was fascinated by Lorca," he says.
Lorca would also have had a frustrated relationship with the painter Salvador Dalí. "He had a terrible fear of being homosexual, which was desperate for Lorca, but that doesn't mean they didn't have a wonderful time together," reveals Gibson.
The relationship between Lorca and Dalí was told in film "Little Ashes", which is not scheduled to premiere in Brazil.
