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.

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.

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)