We Go Way Back · Seville

Seville is three thousand years old. So are we.

A woman buried with an elephant tusk, whom everyone took for a man for fifteen years. A poet king who married a washerwoman and killed the love of his life with his own hands. Two inseparable cigar makers. An embroiderer who invented Holy Week as Seville knows it today. A banner reading "Sexual Freedom" hanging from the Giralda in 1978. And an opera hairdresser who kept a Chinese nightingale.

We Go Way Back · Seville tells the LGBTQ+ story of the city, from the Ivory Lady to today: an ordinary day in every age, the lives of emperors, poets, a lieutenant nun, dancers, activists and the neighbors of Calle Feria, and the places where you can still see their traces. With humor, with rigor, and always saying what's true and what isn't.

Inside you'll find:

• 19 lives, from Trajan and Hadrian to Cernuda, Ocaña, Mar Cambrollé and María del Monte, each with its profile card and a certainty rating.
• 19 stories "A Day in…": from the dolmens of Valencina to al-Mutamid's Isbiliya, Cervantes's Royal Prison, the Tobacco Factory, the Ateneo in 1927, the Alameda in 1954, the first march in Andalusia and Calle Feria.
• The gossip, myths and hoaxes of every age, debunked one by one.
• 39 cut-paper illustrations, a timeline, a glossary and every place in LGBTQ+ Seville, neighborhood by neighborhood.

The Sevillian sibling of "We Go Way Back". A book to give, to dip into, and to take with you when you go looking for their traces in the streets.