- Release of the ebook “The Hateful Widows of Lemebel”
- Thursday, January 23 at 7:00 p.m. at the 3rd Ground, Av. Matucana 501, Metro Quinta Standard.
10 years after the demise of the well-known nationwide author, “The Hateful Widows of Lemebel” is gifted on the Museum of Reminiscence and Human Rights, with the participation and intervention of Geraldine Mardones, Pedro Marinello, Cristián Cuevas, Pedro Bahamondes, Victoria Aldunate and his editor Víctor Hugo Robles. Thursday, January 23 at 7:00 p.m. at the 3rd Ground, Av. Matucana 501, Metro Quinta Standard.
“It was once December 2014, the eve of the end-of-year vacations. I used to be consuming ice cream within the Plaza de Armas in Santiago once I gained a small however specific message informing that Lemebel was once in an overly critical situation on the Arturo López Pérez Basis. I left there. I did not hesitate for a 2d, past our encounters and disagreements, anguished and expectant, I headed in opposition to the sanatorium interested by the gorgeous, demanding and intense friendship with Pedro. There was once no primary forms to go into where, so I went to the second one flooring the place they identified to me was once Don Pedro’s room, as a type nurse mentioned. I assumed he can be mendacity down, resting and in ache, however to my marvel I discovered him out of doors the room, surrounded by way of buddies, flooding all of the position together with his important power. I take note sitting in a wheelchair having a look on the boulevard from a big window, observing the horizon, possibly interested by the longer term, possibly about lifestyles and demise. Then, I approached slowly and now at her aspect, from in the back of, I exclaimed: “Hi poh woman.” Pedro, shocked, grew to become round and handiest controlled to shout, “Guarrrrdias!” straining his specific robot voice that left him with an operation on his larynx. I used to be scared, I imagined being expelled by way of the sanatorium’s safety guards in entrance of the fickle smiles of Lemebel’s different loopy buddies who have been giving her a company hospitable courtroom. However sooner than that embarrassing result, Pedro, mischievous and playful, instructed me: “Do not be concerned, woman, it is a funny story.”
Thus, in a blissful but additionally ironic method, starts the primary chronicle of “The Hateful Widows of Lemebel”, introduced and edited by way of Víctor Hugo Robles, a collective paintings that brings in combination recollections of writers, poets, theater artists, photographers and activists, greater than 50 buddies by way of Pedro Lemebel, who pay an excellent and heartfelt tribute to the lifestyles and paintings of our liked and unforgettable “lovely ladybug” 10 years after her unhappy good-bye.
In line with its writer, the journalist and activist, Víctor Hugo Robles, referred to as “El Che de los Gays”, the paintings isn’t just every other biography, nor an educational or literary monument, a lot much less an ode to private friendship, however reasonably the beneficiant and collective workout of remembering one of the crucial very best city chroniclers in Chile and an important activist of the LGBTIQ+ group, accumulating the voices of sexual dissidence, with the authors of the texts – the overwhelming majority – being participants of the motion for diversities sexual in Chile. A few of the authors and photographers, the next stand out: Claudio Narea, Héctor Hernández Montecinos, Juan Pablo Pozo, Victoria Aldunate, Cristián Cuevas Zambrano, Sofía Devenir, Claudio Barrientos, Marco Ruiz Delgado, Rucitama, Gustavo Bernal, Ernesto Muñoz, Johnny Aguirre, Patricio Martínez, Iván Stated, Bessy Gallardo, Fernando Blanco, Eugeni Rodríguez of the Homosexual Liberation Entrance of Catalonia, David Aruquipa from Bolivia, John Higher from Colombia, Gonzalo León, Pedro Bahamondes, Manuel Hernández, Ximena Riffo, Álvaro Hope, Juan Pedro Catepillán, Mariela Rivera, Pamela Collado Varela, Pablo Sanhueza, Pablo Trujillo, Sergio López Retamal and Paz Errázuriz .
And why hateful widows of Lemebel?
Those aren’t the phrases of the editor of the paintings however of the gifted actor Alfredo Castro who, in an interview performed by way of journalist Pedro Bahamondes, accused Lemebel’s buddies of seeking to say and believe the entirety that Pedro would say and/or do now, calling them “hateful widows.” ”. Víctor Hugo Robles, assuming and deciphering the complaint: “Alfredo Castro were given indignant with us as a result of he didn’t tolerate the complaint of his “Loca del Frente” in “I’m afraid bullfighter” and he blocked me from his networks. I did not get indignant, reasonably I discovered that “hateful widows” stunning and we created an imaginary collective and now an uncomfortable ebook to unite, struggle and lift our hateful voices.”
The Two Fridas 2024
The duvet picture of “The Hateful Widows of Lemebel” is a quote from The Two Fridas, a well-known portray by way of the Mexican Frida Kahlo. Likewise, a quote from the quote. A quote from the pictures of Las Yeguas del Apocalipsis in Frida mode, beneficiant and irreverent paintings of photographer Pedro Marinello, writer of the emblematic picture of Pedro Lemebel and Francisco Casas, taken in 1989 and now, 35 years later, writer of Las Dos Fridas 2024, starring Pedro Lemebel’s niece, Geraldine Mardones and the Che of gays.
In December 2024, after the trial of the hereditary group of Lemebel had concluded, the photographer Marinello made up our minds to make a gesture of cohesion with Geraldine, the unknown daughter of Jorge Mardones and niece of Lemebel who fought an exhausting struggle for her rights and to unfastened the paintings. of his uncle Pedro. Marinello, writer of a lot of the photographic paintings of Las Yeguas del Apocalipsis, makes this particular political gesture with Lemebel’s niece, paying tribute to Pedro, his struggles and his hateful buddies.
