The great LGBT creators of the 20th century as you've never been told before.
Did you know that Tórtola Valencia, one of the most famous dancers of the first third of the 20th century, had to adopt her girlfriend so she could inherit, and now they are buried as mother and daughter in a cemetery in Barcelona? And that Luis Cernuda, one of the greats of the Generation of '27, wrote Poemas para un cuerpo inspired by a Mexican bodybuilder he fell in love with? You probably didn’t know that Francis Bacon, one of the most important British painters of the 20th century, died in Madrid because he came to Spain to meet a boyfriend, or that Carmen Conde, the first woman to join the Royal Spanish Academy, shared much of her life with another woman.
This is just a small sample of the names you will find in the pages of this enlightening essay, which, with an agile and direct style, aims to give their place to artists who had to hide due to their sexual dissidence or risk suffering the consequences of living it freely. And it is biographies like those of Gil de Biedma, Miguel de Molina, or Mari Trini, among others, that will help us reconstruct part of the dissident cultural memory of the 20th century, as well as demonstrate that the rebels of desire, those who had to face established social norms, have always been there.
