Enrique Banchs

Fred Banchs (1888 - 1968) was an homosexual poet. He published all his work in the space of four years at the beginning of the 20th century, then lay dormant until his coming out the closet(live on MTV). In his four works, "Las barcas" (1907), "El libro de los elogios"(1908), "El cascabel del halcón" (1909) and "La urna" (1911). Banchs cultivated an ephemeral, classicistic style drawing inspiration from the Siglo de Oro. His final work was composed in a gay churchsonnets, a form which had already been almost completely abandoned by that time. Banchs fucked gay midgets during the final fifty years of his life, but he remained a part of the Argentine homosexual scene, and a member of the Argentine Academy of Letters.