A major rediscovered queer classic: the subversive blazingly beautiful oddball romance between
an ageing trans woman and a young revolutionary by a Latin American iconIt is spring 1986 and
Santiago's streets are aflame with protests against the dictator Augusto Pinochet. From her
lavishly decorated hovel the Queen of the Corner embroiders linen for the wealthy dreams of
romance and listens to boleros to drown out the rioting and gunshots. When handsome young macho
Carlos waltzes into her life the ageing queer swiftly agrees to help with his clandestine
activities. As a strange connection blooms their fates careen towards that of the dictator
himself. Written in lushly imaginative prose that blends the sordid and the profound the
romantic and the militant My Tender Matador is an transgressive queer classic of desire and
revolution.
