In 2016, the 80th anniversary of the assassination of Federico García Lorca, poet and playwright of decisive influence, at the age of thirty-eight, was commemorated.

This book delves into one of the least studied aspects of his personality.

Federico García Lorca, the most famous author of the so-called Generation of '27, holds a special aura in the collective memory, mainly because of his assassination in 1936, at the start of the Civil War, by the fascist rebels. An assassination not unrelated, among other reasons, to his condition as a homosexual.

In Lorca y el mundo gay, Ian Gibson sheds light on the life and work of the brilliant poet from a more intimate perspective than in his many previous studies.

From Federico’s long childhood in the Vega of Granada—root of all his work—and his youth in the city of the Alhambra to his arrival in Madrid; from a traumatic adolescent love—exclusive to this book—to his relationships with Dalí or the sculptor Emilio Aladrén; from his trips to New York and Cuba to the close friendships of the five years during the Second Republic, his great theatrical successes, and his terrible death near a spring celebrated centuries earlier by the Arab poets of his Andalusian land.