A LAST SUPPER OF QUEER APOSTLES

In a baroque, freewheeling style that fused political urgency with playfulness, resistance with camp, Lemebel shone a light on lives and events that many wanted to suppress: the glitzy literary salon held above a torture chamber, the queer sex and community that bloomed in Santiagos hidden corners and the last days of trans sex workers dying of AIDS, each cast in the starring role of her own private tragedy.