Identifying as queer, Marxist, mestizo, and working class, Chilean performance artist and writer Pedro Lemebel challenged and interrupted cultural, social, and political institutions from the intersection of a number of marginalized identities from the 1980s (during Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship) until his untimely death in 2015. Lemebel’s urban chronicles reinvent this literary genre through a poetic sensibility, satirical humor, and creative wordplay that occupies extremely local (Chilean) language, turning him into a cultural and queer icon in Latin America and beyond.
Chile’s first author to openly describe and present himself as a loca [queen], often wearing high heels and a head scarf, Pedro Lemebel embraced the feminine in his life and his work. Although the majority of
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Citation: Osborne, Elizabeth. "Pedro Lemebel". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 11 June 2020 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13916, accessed 24 April 2024.]
