Os grandes creadores LGTB do século XX como nunca antes che os contaran.

Sabías que Tórtola Valencia, unha das bailarinas máis famosas do primeiro terzo do século XX, tivo que adoptar á súa moza para que puidese herdar e agora están enterradas como nai e filla nun cemiterio de Barcelona? E que Luis Cernuda, un dos grandes da xeración do 27, escribiu Poemas para un cuerpo inspirado nun culturista mexicano do que se namorou? Que tampouco sabías que Francis Bacon, un dos pintores británicos máis importantes do século XX, morreu en Madrid porque veu a España para encontrarse cun namorado ou que Carmen Conde, primeira muller en ingresar na Real Academia da Lingua Española, compartiu gran parte da súa vida con outra muller?

Esta é só unha pequena mostra dos nomes que poderás atopar nas páxinas deste ensaio esclarecedor que, cun estilo áxil e directo, pretende dar o seu lugar a uns artistas que tiveron que agocharse debido á súa disidencia sexual ou arriscarse a sufrir as consecuencias de vivila en liberdade. E é que biografías como as de Gil de Biedma, Miguel de Molina ou Mari Trini, entre outras, servirannos para reconstruír parte da memoria cultural disidente do século XX, ademais de para demostrar que os rebeldes do desexo, aqueles que tiveron que enfrontarse ás normas sociais establecidas, sempre estiveron aí.

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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 "Poems for a Body" 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.