Luis Cernuda left his native Seville to discover his homosexuality in the warm city of Malaga, and from there, he moved to Madrid, where he became very close friends with two of Spain's greatest homosexual figures in literary history, Federico García Lorca and the future Nobel laureate in literature, Vicente Aleixandre. In his poetry, Cernuda explored his sexuality, loneliness, and love, making him one of the greatest poets in the Spanish language of the 20th century. An active anti-fascist, he spent his final days in exile, like many other Spaniards, welcomed by Mexico.

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