Loves history tried to silence
LGBTQ+ loves that survived silence and censorship. Gabriela Mistral and Doris Dana, Lorca and Dalí, Sappho of Lesbos: stories recovered from letters and margins, returned to the center.
The love the letters revealed
The Nobel laureate — the first Latin American woman to win it — and her American companion and translator; their love was revealed by the letters published as "Niña errante" (2010), shattering the myth of the lonely "Saint Gabriela."
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An impossible love between geniuses
Lorca fell in love with Dalí at Madrid's Residencia de Estudiantes; the painter did not reciprocate physically, but the bond was intense and inspired the "Ode to Salvador Dalí" (1926).
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The love that decided the Trojan War
The greatest Greek warrior and his companion Patroclus, whose love antiquity read as a model of devotion; Patroclus's death unleashes the rage that defines "The Iliad."
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The first voice of love between women
The poet of the island of Lesbos whose verses of love and desire for other women are so famous they gave the words "lesbian" and "sapphic" to language itself.
Read the storyLove on the ice
The Japanese skater Yuri and the Russian legend Victor, who becomes his coach and his great love: one of the most celebrated queer relationships in contemporary anime.
Read the storyThe persecuted writer and his companion in exile
The Cuban novelist imprisoned for his work and his homosexuality, and the young man who became his inseparable companion: they fled the regime in the Mariel exodus and lived the poverty of exile together in Manhattan until the end.
Read the storyYes. One of the most documented is Gabriela Mistral — the first Latin American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature — and Doris Dana, revealed by their letters published as "Niña errante" (2010).