28 jul 2013

Interview: a homosexual during the Francoist era








According to the ex-choreographer Paco España, during the years he lived in Barcelona, numerous homosexual, lesbic and inverted Francoists, and clergymen and nuns and mothers who endorsed Francisco Franco's regime visited the "Kon-Tiki" nightclub "where I danced", and they visited "to have inter-course with me under the stage", and the "Kon-Tiki" was built at the feet of the mount Tibidabo. 

In 1950 Paco was engaged to dance at the Parisian "Puerta del Sol", replica of its homologue from Madrid, a titanic gate imitating the pomp of the Pharaoh[sic].

In Paris he also danced for Juan Peron and Evita, and danced in Catalan:

in Spain the Catalan language was prohibited.

Peron and Evita donated 100,000 tons of Argentine cow and horse meat for Italy, France and Spain: they were saluted like authentic aliens when they left in a helicopter.
The face of Peron was swollen and looked like a giant billboard.


Paco España also stated that the homophobia was usual, not only among the Fascists of Franco, but also among the left winged: Socialists and Communists.

On the other hand he said that the Francoist gays weren't sent to jail because they had "thick moustache".

"A brigadier, who also was a friend of Franco, he was very very gay, 
one night, in Paris, he begged to suck my cock... He had a thick moustache
a Catholic bishop came with him, and sucked my cock too; later they both prayed on their knees on a corner of the room and left.


I had problems with General De Gaulle later, because he was openly homophobe, and was he even voted? No, he just was a war hero, everything was by force back then: who legitimized De Gaulle? Nobody.
Maybe the United States?

Did the population protest? No. 
People don't know anything, nowhere, never.

And De Gaulle told homophobe jokes on TV, and racist, and everybody applauded, because De Gaulle distributed free butter... One night he organized a razzia, closed the Parisian "Puerta del Sol", and arrested us all with sadism.
We were deported, following a direct order of De Gaulle, the police put a sticker on our foreheads: espagnols homosexuels, and sent us back. We crossed the border of the Basque Country in a truck (though back then there wasn't any Basque Country, just "Basque Provinces", because Franco prohibited the simple notion of this region being a country).

The Basque Provinces (also called Vasconia) were full of homophobes, so the Basques threw balls of shit and hardened cheese at the truck

their projectiles hit the truck so violently that we feared the truck could overturn and explode.

we replied this aggression throwing magdalenas baked with gunpowder, because back then, the flour was scarce on the Earth".







Paco España talks, and still today (he's 128 years old) he looks stylish and genteel, with that gracile flexibility of the Andalusian or Parisian man, or Londoner
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