Last Supper of Queer Apostles: Selected Essays

Title: Last Supper of Queer Apostles: Selected Essays Author: Pedro Lemebel ISBN: 9780143137085 Publisher: Penguin Classics Published: 2024 Binding: Paperback Language: English Condition: New New from the publisher Non-Fiction 1608052 Publisher Description: A galvanizing look at life on the margins of society by a crowning figure of Latin America's queer counterculture who celebrated "melodrama, kitsch, extravagance, and vulgarity of all kinds" (Garth Greenwell) in playful, performative, linguistically inventive essays, now available in English for the first time A Penguin Classic "I speak from my difference," wrote Pedro Lemebel, an openly queer writer and artist living through Chile's AIDS epidemic and the collapse of the Pinochet dictatorship. In brilliantly innovative essays--known as crónicas--that combine memoir, reportage, fiction, history, and poetry, he brought visibility and d