Hello and welcome to Queerest Fact. I'm Irene. I'm Alice. And I'm Jason. And today we're going to be

talking about the Spanish poet and playwright Federico Garcia-Lauca.

I just want to say in advance that I don't know Spanish. There are a lot of Spanish place names in this, and I can't promise that I'll do a perfect job.

Our resident Spanish speaker is out of state. How dare he?

Yeah, exactly. That's what I did last time.

I was like, Eli helped me, and he's not here.

Which is why I'm here.

But you don't speak Spanish, so you're not fulfilling your role.

That is true. I have a few content warnings for this episode. There's a brief mention of homophobic violence.

There is some sexual content, and there is an assassination. And there is one mention of the word

gypsy. So if any of that is a problem for you, go and listen to one of our other episodes

instead. It will have different content warnings. Federico Garcia-Lawka was born on June

5, 1898, to his father, Federico Garcia-Rodriguez, and Federico Garcia-Rodriguez's second wife,

Vicenta Lorca Romero. Garcia-Rodrig Rodriguez came from one of the richest and most important families in Fuente

Vaceros, the town where Federico would spend his earliest years.

His first marriage was childless.

His first wife was infertile, but they were married for 10 years before she died of illness.

Following this, he married Vicenta, who was 10 years younger and came from a much poorer

family.

She was a primary school teacher.

At this point in the main biography that I read, Ian Gibson, the author spent a great

deal of time refusing myths about Federico Garcia-Lawker,

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