Pedro Lemebel, a significant queer writer, was renowned for his crónicas, blending reportage with fiction and essays to depict Chile's AIDS crisis during the Pinochet era. Gwendolyn Harper is translating and the Review is publishing his work.
Lemebel critically describes Parque Forestal's enforced cleanliness, likening it to a Versailles or Japanese garden, surveilled by security cameras erasing intimacy, while real-life scenes unfold beyond the artificial perfection.
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