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TENDENCIAS. Museo Memoria LGBTTTIQ+México tendrá actividades en Burdeos y Nantes


En el marco del Bicentenario de Relaciones Diplomáticas entre Francia y México, representantes del único recinto mexicano en su tipo, han diseñado en colaboración con colectivos franceses una serie de exposiciones, presentaciones de libros y conversatorios del 21 de mayo al 15 de junio

Algunas piezas de las muestras en Francia y México . Fotos: CORTESÍA

Enrique Vázquez Lozano / Guadalajara

Jaime Cobián director y David Vázquez coordinador de Comunicación del Museo Memoria LGBTTTIQ+México, el primero y único en su tipo en México, estarán en Nantes y Burdeos del 24 de mayo al 15 de para presidir diversas actividades de difusión del espacio, en el marco de los Festejos del 200 aniversario de Relaciones Diplomáticos entre Mexico y Francia.
La muestra Bréve Histoire des Mouvements LGBTQI-au Mexique que traza los movimientos LGBTQI+ en México desde finales del siglo XIX y principios del siglo XX hasta la década de 1970 se presenta se ralizz del 21 al 30 de mayo en el Hotel de Raguenaeau, ubicado en el número 71 de la rue du Loup. La muestra ha sido curada por MACLA Burdeaux, el evento coincide con la celebración de las Semanas Nacionales de Améric Latina y el Caribe.
Por otro lado el 5 de Junio inauguran la exposición BRILLO. Les cultures queer en Amérique latine hispanophone en la que se presenta obra de Eraín Canedo, Jorge Concha, Rogelio Pereda y Juan Carlos Cedillo. Durante el acto Jaime Cobian presenta el libro La Caricature Stigmate du Maitresse. Los Jotos II (un volumen traducido al francés) y Kauyumari presenta un performance drag. La cita es a las 18:30 horas en la galería A l’espace Cosmopolis ubicado en el Passage Graslin 18 rue Scribe de Nantes. Esta muestra se ha realizado también gracias a la colaboracón de Comal Asociation que tiene sede en dicho munipio francés.
“Estas iniciativas surgieron a partir de las propuestas de visitantes al espacio. En los últimos años nos visitaron promotores culturales que residen en Francia y les pareció importante y digno que pudiéramos llevar algo de lo que hacemos para allá”, dijo Cobián Zamora quien agregó: “Ya ante la invitación decidimos presentar en Nantes el libro ya mencionado y en la muestra de Burdeos que cuenta con más piezas de exhibición llevaremos ex votos del artista trans Alejandro Torres y ahí presentaré el libro Catálogo de Bibliografía. Acevo Nacional de Memoria LGBT México Los Jotos IV, en español. “Durante el acto de inauguración de la muestra hablaré de el doble sentido y la sátira política en México del siglo XIX, que incluye imágenes como las extraídas de la sátira de Escalante durante la ocupación francesa. Por ejemplo mostraremos una imagen publicada un 23 de abril de 1862, que el artista Escalante presentó en La Orquesta, un cuadro que, además de obsceno, resultaba sacrílego. Representaba una escena bíblica con una pareja de hombres: Juan Nepomuceno Almonte (hijo de José María Morelos) en el papel de Adán y Alfonso Dubois de Saligny (ministro francés) como Eva, ambos con el torso desnudo.

Mayor información del evento en Burdeos, favor de consultar este sitio
https://www.junklive.fr/evenements/bordeaux/2026-05-18/breve-histoire-des-mouvements-lgbtqi-au-mexique/

EXPOSICIÓN VIGENTE EN LA SEDE DE 8 DE JULIO 76


Esta gira coincide con la apertura de la muestra 505 años de la resistencia y la resilencia de los Gay, Lesbianas y Personas Trans en México que ya se puede apreciar en la sede del recinto en Guadalajara ubicada en el número 76 de la calle 8 de Julio.
“La muestra toca temas de denuncia acerca de cómo han sido tratadas nuestras comunidades durante todo ese tiempo pero, también muestra temas más joviales porque ha sido pensada para el público que visite Guadalajara a raíz de los partidos mundialistas que se jugarán como parte de la Copa de Futbol 2026. En la muestra se encontrarán la infografía que aborda Una línea de tiempo, que se podrá apreciar también en Burdeos”.

As part of the Bicentennial of Diplomatic Relations between France and Mexico, representatives of the only Mexican museum of its kind, in collaboration with French collectives, have designed a series of exhibitions, book presentations, and discussions from May 21 to June 15.

Enrique Vázquez Lozano / Guadalajara
Jaime Cobián, director, and David Vázquez, communications coordinator of the LGBTTTIQ+ Memory Museum Mexico, the first and only museum of its kind in Mexico, will be in Nantes and Bordeaux from May 24 to June 15 to preside over various outreach activities for the museum, as part of the celebrations of the 200th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Mexico and France.

The exhibition «Brève Histoire des Mouvements LGBTQI-au Mexique» (A Brief History of LGBTQI+ Movements in Mexico), which traces LGBTQI+ movements in Mexico from the late 19th and early 20th centuries to the 1970s, will be on view from May 21 to 30 at the Hôtel de Raguenaeau, located at 71 rue du Loup. Curated by MACLA Bordeaux, the exhibition coincides with the celebration of National Latin American and Caribbean Weeks.

On June 5, the exhibition «BRILLO. Les cultures queer en Amérique latine hispanophone» (Brillo: Queer Cultures in Hispanic Latin America) will open, featuring work by Eraín Canedo, Jorge Concha, Rogelio Pereda, and Juan Carlos Cedillo. During the opening, Jaime Cobian will present the book «La Caricature Stigmate du Maitresse. Los Jotos II» (The Stigmatized Caricature of the Master: The Queers II) (a volume translated into French), and Kauyumari will present a drag performance. The event will take place at 6:30 pm at the A l’espace Cosmopolis gallery, located at Passage Graslin 18 rue Scribe in Nantes. This exhibition has also been made possible thanks to the collaboration of Comal Association, which is based in that French city.

“These initiatives arose from suggestions made by visitors to the space. In recent years, cultural promoters residing in France visited us and felt it was important and worthwhile for us to take some of our work there,” said Cobián Zamora, who added: “Upon receiving the invitation, we decided to present the aforementioned book in Nantes, and at the Bordeaux exhibition, which features more pieces, we will be exhibiting ex-votos by the trans artist Alejandro Torres. There, I will also present the book Catalog of Bibliography. National Archive of LGBT Memory Mexico: Los Jotos IV, in Spanish. “During the exhibition’s opening, I will speak about double entendres and political satire in 19th-century Mexico, which includes images such as those taken from Escalante’s satire during the French occupation. For example, we will show an image published on April 23, 1862, which the artist Escalante presented in La Orquesta, a painting that, in addition to being obscene, was sacrilegious.” It depicted a biblical scene with a male couple: Juan Nepomuceno Almonte (son of José María Morelos) as Adam and Alfonso Dubois de Saligny (French minister) as Eve, both shirtless.

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CURRENT EXHIBITION AT THE 8 DE JULIO 76 LOCATION


This tour coincides with the opening of the exhibition «505 Years of Resistance and Resilience of Gay, Lesbian, and Trans People in Mexico,» which can now be seen at the venue’s Guadalajara location at number 76 on 8 de Julio Street. “The exhibition touches on issues of denunciation regarding how our communities have been treated during all this time, but it also shows more jovial themes because it has been designed for the public that will visit Guadalajara as a result of the World Cup matches that will be played as part of the 2026 Football Cup. In the exhibition you will find the infographic that addresses A Timeline, which can also be seen in Bordeaux.”

CARMEN LAFORET & BARCELONA


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Israel Rolón-Barada, columnista de Balsia Producciones y biógrafo de Carmen Laforet.

Por Israel Rolón Barada.

Guadalajara, 6 de diciembre de 2025

Entonces, LAFORET, por medio de su personaje y protagonista, Andrea, obtuvo todo el éxito literario con su primera obra, que fue toda una revelación feminista y renovación de la novela española peninsular contemporánea. Gracias a su sensibilidad y vena literaria logró alcanzar la cumbre aún en vida, como autora de una nueva novela de carácter universal. ¿Quién, en el universo literario hispanoamericano, que haya leído NADA, no sería capaz de identificarse con ANDREA y su creadora, CARMEN LAFORET, capaces de tocar profundamente y para siempre las fibras del corazón de cualquier lector tanto en castellano como en todas las lenguas en las que ha sido traducida y publicada durante los últimos 80 años?

Por eso me atrevo a decir que CARMEN LAFORET, NADA y ANDREA son parte inherente en BARCELONA. La autora, su obra y su protagonista son Barcelona. Y Barcelona está en ellas magistralmente representada para la eternidad.

¿Cuántos no hemos ido y continuamos yendo a Barcelona en busca de Andrea por la calle de ARIBAU y por todos los lugares emblemáticos de la gran ciudad, como el Barrio Chino, el Tibidabo, Plaza Cataluña, la avenida Diagonal, entre tantos puntos claves recorridos por ambas jóvenes estudiantes (tanto Carmen como Andrea) con vehemencia en busca de amor, comprensión, sentido de la vida, y un desarrollo intelectual?

Algunos / muchos hemos encontrado a nuestra ANDREA, otros todavía continúan en esa búsqueda. En mi caso, gracias a mi apreciación por su obra literaria, la complicidad intelectual, mi perseverancia académica, y un poco de magia, he tenido la fortuna de también haber encontrado a CARMEN LAFORET. Que sirva de evidencia los resultados de mi investigación académica, la base y los cimientos de su biografía, y la recuperación y conservación de la mayoría de su correspondencia, además de haber localizado el manuscrito de NADA, reeditado su obra, y promovido su figura literaria por más de 25 años, con la satisfacción de hablarlo compartido todo con la escritora misma antes de su fallecimiento en febrero de 2004.

Guadalajara, December 6, 2025.

Thanks to the honorary invitation extended to the city of Barcelona to the Guadalajara International Book Fair, we also remember and pay tribute to those key figures who have represented literature, culture, and the arts in general throughout history, both nationally and internationally, hailing from this Catalan capital.

Among the top one hundred writers who could possibly top this list, it would be impossible not to include Carmen Laforet. When speaking of or imagining Barcelona in an intellectual and literary context, it is also absolutely necessary to remember and include the renowned postwar novelist Carmen Laforet, her masterpiece Nada (1945), and its protagonist Andrea. Because Nada, as a novel and a literary work, is Barcelona, ​​and Barcelona was and will forever be portrayed in this book. A book that became a classic even during its author’s lifetime, which is saying something. Therefore, both Laforet and the essence of her first novel are an integral part of Barcelona for posterity.

Among the many distinguished and excellent writers from Barcelona, ​​such as Mercè Roderedas, Ana María Matute, Rosa Regas, and Baltasar Porcel, all natives of this great city, so famous for its beauty, architecture, painting, music, gastronomy, and the rich artistic and intellectual culture that makes it one of the most cosmopolitan and attractive tourist destinations, we find the outstanding story of a very particular writer with a unique style who revolutionized the history and trajectory of contemporary Spanish literature: Carmen Laforet.

Born in Barcelona on September 6, 1921, she moved to Las Palmas de Gran Canaria at the age of two due to her father’s professional commitments. She did not return to her hometown until 1939, just after the end of the Spanish Civil War. With a Canarian accent, thanks to having convinced/blackmailed her father by finding love letters between him and her stepmother written before her mother’s death, when the future author was only 13 years old, she manages to return to Barcelona and settle in her grandparents’ historic apartment at number 36 Aribau Street, on the corner of Consell de Cent. This would undoubtedly become the setting for her future masterpiece.

Under the dramatic impact of a city in ruins after the war, the inevitable and unsustainable socioeconomic and cultural circumstances—factors responsible for the limitations of all kinds she faced due to that family and academic depression during her first two years at university—proved invaluable. The combination of all these tangible factors was her inspiration and driving force, the motivators for the creation and writing of a novel that would win the first Nadal Prize, break the mold and reshape the trajectory of the romance novel, and stand out as one of the new pillars of post-war Spanish fiction. Written by a young student, but full of talent and artistic and literary sensitivity, at just 24 years old at the time of the first edition and publication, thanks to Editorial Destino, which has sold at least 8,000 copies a year without interruption since 1945. A book that, quite possibly, according to publishing statistics, has been reprinted nearly as many times as Don Quixote or the Bible.

Thus, Laforet, through her character and protagonist, Andrea, achieved great literary success with her first work, which was a feminist revelation and a renewal of the contemporary Spanish peninsular novel. Thanks to her sensitivity and literary talent, she reached the pinnacle of her career while still alive, as the author of a new novel of universal appeal. Anyone in the Hispanic American literary world who has read Nada would not be able to identify with Andrea and her creator, Carmen Laforet, who have the power to deeply and permanently touch the hearts of any reader, both in Spanish and in all the languages ​​into which it has been translated and published over the last 80 years.

That is why I dare say that Carmen Laforet, Nada, and Andrea are an inherent part of Barcelona. The author, her work, and her protagonist are from Barcelona. And Barcelona is masterfully represented within them for eternity.

How many of us haven’t gone, and continue to go, to Barcelona in search of Andrea, wandering along Aribau Street and through all the iconic landmarks of the great city, like the Barrio Chino, Tibidabo, Plaça Catalunya, and Avinguda Diagonal, among so many other key locations traversed by both young students (Carmen and Andrea) with such fervor in their search for love, understanding, meaning in life, and intellectual growth?

Some of us have found our Andrea, while others continue their search. In my case, thanks to my appreciation for her literary work, our intellectual affinity, my academic perseverance, and a touch of magic, I have been fortunate enough to also find Carmen Laforet. The results of my academic research, the foundation of her biography, and the recovery and preservation of most of her correspondence serve as evidence of this. Furthermore, I have located the manuscript of Nada, republished her work, and promoted her literary legacy for over 25 years, with the satisfaction of having shared it all with the writer herself before her passing in February 2004.

LAFORET and BARCELONA, for me, are one and the same.

Imagen 1- El emblemático portal de hierro y cristal, de la casa de la calle de ARIBAU #36, el escenario de NADA, la obra maestra de CL. Imagen 2 y 3 -La casa / y el piso de 8 balcones q la protagonista describe tan minuciosamente en su libro… / Image 1 – The iconic iron and glass doorway of the house at 36 Aribau Street, the setting for NADA, CL’s masterpiece. Images 2 and 3 – The house and the apartment with 8 balconies that the protagonist describes so meticulously in her book… Fotos: Cortesía.

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