A Last Supper of Queer Apostles by Pedro Lemebel

A Last Supper of Queer Apostles by Pedro Lemebel

Next year will mark ten years since the death of the Chilean queer activist, performance artist, novelist and essayist Pedro Lemebel (1952-2015), whom the former Chilean president Michelle Bachelet called “a defender of freedom”. Lemebel’s essays (or crónicas: informal pieces for papers and magazines on topical matters) typically covered Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship and the inequality instigated by the HIV epidemic. But in pieces such as “Man…