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Luis Buñuel and Homophobia

Written by Cilla Benjamin

Thursday, 02 April 2009 02:51

It is clearly evident via countless anecdotes, that Luis Buñuel exhibited a homophobic disposition. Whilst manifesting his virile persona through athletics and his old fashioned ideals, we speculate if perhaps all of Buñuel's attempts at proving his heterosexuality were nothing but a smokescreen, intended to conceal his true nature. Nevertheless, it's something interesting to cogitate about.

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Luis Buñuel Portolés was born in Calanda, Spain, on Feb. 22, 1900. Although he mainly worked in France and Mexico, he is considered one of Spain's most prominent directors. When he was a young boy, he received a strict Jesuit education at the Colegio di Salvador in Zaragoza. After he was expelled from the college, he moved to the University of Madrid, where he met and became close to Salvador Dalí and Federico Garcia Lorca.

According to A Companion to Luis Buñuel by Gwynne Edwards, Buñuel appeared to be strongly homophobic. When he was at the Residencia de Estudiantes, he often attacked homosexuals as they came out of the public bathroom. When there were rumours about Lorca being homosexual, Buñuel was reported to have bluntly asked him if he was queer. He also openly denied that his younger brother Alfonso was a homosexual.

In addition to that, Buñuel always was known to be a very athletic person. His interest in many kinds of sporting activities was a declaration to the world that he was masculine and had no homosexual tendencies. Nevertheless, the book argued that this also could be merely a façade, which is quite common among the homosexual men who went to a male educational institution.

Buñuel‘s wife, Jeanne, also added that Buñuel was a very possessive and puritan husband. He always was jealous and controlling. She once said that she felt very fortunate that they weren't living in the middle ages, otherwise he would've wanted her to wear a chastity belt. Although Buñuel was not a religious person, he was deeply influenced by his time at the Jesuit college in Zaragoza. He always was told that sexual desire is a sin, and homosexuality is an even graver sin.

Despite this fact, there often seemed to be a struggle between his innate desires and what he understood as the "right" thing to do. Jeanne stated that in their later years Buñuel developed a very close friendship with a priest named Father Julian, who everyone believed was gay. Could this be an indication that he actually was gay, considering how close he was with Dalí and Lorca as well?

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Regan

Hi. When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
I am from Chile and learning to write in English, give true I wrote the following sentence: "Wolfman next assertion - transdermal progesterone is poorly absorbed."

THX ;), Regan.

Sunday 28 June 2009, 03:57

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