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‘His voice was too queer – so they silenced him’: how Spain’s national poet Lorca finally became a gay icon

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The significance of the poet and playwright’s homosexuality was repressed in Spain for decades – but a spate of recent work, including the film La Bola Negra, is redressing the balance for a new…

The Guardian United Kingdom · 3 November 2026

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