LORCA, BURIED MEMORY OF THE GAY MYTH

The film, presented yesterday in the Panorama section, matches two arguments. Three even. On the one hand, it has already been said, the always historical polemic; On the other, the disgraceful oblivion of all the Francoist repression against gays and lesbians, and, in the middle, the cause of Federico García Lorca. Poet and Grace to all the atrocities of the world. Including homophobic persecution

The film follows in the footsteps of several victims, all of them with a common wound: the punishment of silence, of recognition with a low voice, of the most crude forgetting. Antoni Ruiz tells how, after being denounced as homosexual by his own mother, the Law of Social Hazard made him a stigmatized citizen with no other recourse than prostitution. Silvia Reyes, transsexual, accurately recalls the repudiation of her family before making her real sex visible. Isabel Franc, in the same way, reveals the secret codes among lesbians so as not to be recognized. What the film seeks ultimately is to shift the focus of oblivion from the cruel spectacular of the graves in the ditches to the equally dark basements of homosexual persecution. And in the middle, as witness of the two disastrous scenarios, Lorca.

• Ainhoa Peregrín and Pablo Miranda