Eminent maricones
Subtitle: Arenas, Lorca, Puig, and me
By: Jaime Manrique.
Series: Living out
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Madison
Language: eng
Number of pages: 116
Subjects: Manrique, Jaime, 1949-; Authors, Colombian -- 20th century -- Biography.; Authors, Spanish American -- 20th century -- Biography.; Authors, Spanish -- 20th century -- Biography.; Gay men -- Latin America -- Biography.; Gay men -- Spain -- Biography.
Description: For the first time, in riveting and eloquent detail, Jaime Manrique describes the final days of his mentors, Manuel Puig and Reinaldo Arenas, both of whom died in tragic circumstances due to AIDS. Manrique also reveals Federico Garcia Lorca's struggle with homophobia and that poet's relationship with an American boyfriend.