Contemporary Spanish Queer Poetry

Lalu Bee (Laura López Gómez) (Madrid, 1999) studies Law and collaborates in the magazine La Gorgona. She has participated in the art and feminism projects Las Brujas de Mayo, Las Sin Miedo, No Somos Musa and El Umbral de la Primavera. She has published two fanzines with the help of the Solipsimo or Barbarie publishing house: "How to make a woman" (2018) and "I'm not afraid" (2019). She has also collaborated in the fanzines If you want to fly (2018) and Florecer will be a crime I and II (2019 and 2020). In 2020 she won a story contest held by Ménades Editorial, being published in the anthology "Relatos Nada Sexi" s.

Óscar Espirita (Guadalajara, 1985) is a poet and teacher specialized in alternative pedagogies. He has published the poetry collections: "Niño Marica" ​​(Hidroavión, 2015) and "Animalitos" (Hidroavión 2018), the children's story "If pink is for girls, blue is from the sea"; and he has collaborated on the anthologies "El cielo en Movimiento", "La Devotion Inflamada", "De Chueca al Cielo" and "Asalto a Oz (New Queer Narratives)".

Adrián Peñalver (Cartagena, 1989) is a Murcian poet and architect, specialized in service design. He publishes his first collection of poems under the title "mussel-zebra / shark-mermaid" (2018) with the Editorial Flores Raras. In 2019, he participated in the fag narrative anthology "Vagos y Malerantes" and in the queer poetry fanzine "Florecer ser un Crime", published in commemoration of the death of Federico García Lorca, with the collaboration of the cultural space El Threshold of Spring and Berkana Bookstore. Currently, he is finishing preparations for the edition of his second collection of poems "Prosperidad".

Perla, besides being an artist, poet and DJ, is the result of a tumour. Since 2016 he has been working with language and this is taking shape in texts, performances and both sound and plastic productions. He is co-founder of the PoemRoom performance reading cycle and the Culpa party group. Since 2019 he has carried out a continuous poem that he has shown twice. First, in "Tranquila you will not be able to describe at this moment, this moment", his first solo exhibition in the Madrid space Yaby. A 40-minute performance where he worked with darkness as a fertile space for enunciation. Second, in "El hechizo del viejecito", his last show where he has worked with the producer and collective partner Vera Amores recently presented at the Conde Duque Cultural Center. In both performances, he investigates ecstatic spaces as fertile places for the enunciation of radicality using poetry and music as a guide. This year he has also participated for the second time in the Gelatina art and thought festival at La Casa Encendida with "Querida celula alterada" –a text that talks about disease, queer bodies and tumour reproductions– and presented in the form of a performative reading together to a video made by artist Elsa Estrella.