Guilherme de Melo

Guilherme de Melo

Guilherme de Melo (b. 1931 in Mozambique) is a Portuguese journalist, novelist, and activist.cite web |url=http://andrejkoymasky.com/liv/fam/biom3/melo1.html |title=Guilherme de Melo |date=2004-08-09 |accessdate=2007-06-22 |work=AndrejKoymaski.com] Robert Aldrich describes his life: Melo lived through the protracted war of independence in the Portuguese colony in the 1960s and 1970's. Openly gay himself,cite journal |title=Expressing Desire, Expressing Death: Antón Lopo's Pronomes and Queer Galician Poetry |last=McGovern |first=Timothy |journal=Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies |volume=7 |issue=2 |date=July, 2006 |pages=135–153(19) |publisher=Routledge |doi=10.1080/14636200600811110] de Melo's novel "The Shadow of the Days" is an account of growing up gay in the privileged environment of a white family in colonial Mozambique before the outbreak of war and of leading an openly gay lifestyle against the background of an increasingly bitter anti-colonial war. de Melo was repatriated to Portugal.

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