Federico García Lorca

According to Spanish naming customs (see the Wikipedia article on them) this person's last name is the double last name GarcÍa Lorca, the first being his father's first last name and the second the mother's first last name. It should always be alphabetized under "G". However, both in conversation and writing he is usually referred to by the "short name" of Lorca (which would generate an index entry under G, not L).

Federico García Lorca (1898-1936) was a Spanish poet and dramatist who was a hebephile, possibly a pedophile as well, or at least someone who wanted lovers younger than himself (21.when he was 36, for example).

The case of Lorca is especially interesting because:

• He got killed for it.
• Direct information from some of his young friends has been available, especially Philip Cummings (see the Wikipedia article on him).

More on both of these to come.

Conspiracy of silence

Lorca's homosexuality, let alone his boylove, has been a taboo, politically-charged topic (see below). During his lifetime he was not "out"; Marcelle Auclair said, after his death, that Lorca had led a "double life". Nevertheless, in the small literary circles in which he moved it was known to most, though not all, but it could not appear in print in any direct way in Spain for at least 50 years after his death.

Lorca's family

Lorca had one brother and two sisters, in addition to his parents: his father a well-to-do progressive farmer, his mother a teacher. His family, in some sense, "knew" that Federico was homosexual, but there was a deliberate and apparently successful attempt to not see what was under their noses. The topic was taboo, so much so that the family granted or withheld access to texts to reward or punish those writing on him, depending on whether the scholar followed their instructions to not discuss Lorca's sexuality. Even worse, texts and correspondence remained unpublished - because the family did not want them published - for half a century or more, and readers and scholars bought editions of Lorca's Obras completas (Complete Works) without realizing how incomplete they were.

His brother Francisco

Lorca's younger brother Francisco idolyzed Federico. He loved him, everyone could see.

There is no direct evidence of any sexual contact between the two, but indirectly the case is overwhelming. The white heat of the topic of homosexuality in the family is evidence. The silence, the censorship. Lorca was the sort of guy who, out of love, would have tried to seduce his brother.

Apparently Francisco never talked of this with anyone, his whole life.

Francisco published a volume of memoirs, In the Green Morning. With the rest of his family, he moved to the U.S. in 1939, at the end of the Spanish Civil War. He was a professor at Columbia University.

Rafael Martínez Nadal

Nadal (short name), had, and finally published, what we have of El público: a messy first draft, missing an act.

He was bisexual, pro-pleasure, and for the times was pretty open about it. An important detail about Nadal is that he was on neither of the two sides in the Spanish Civil War.

Sonetos de amor oscuro (Sonnets of Dark Love)

---> This article is not complete. When it is complete I'll remove this line. Linguist (talk) 12:04, 5 March 2015 (UTC)