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From the first edition of Manuel Puig’s El beso de la mujer araña (Kiss of the Spider Woman, 1976) to Amora by Rosa María Roffiel (1989)—considered Mexico’s first openly lesbian novel—and the autobiographical work Antes que anochezca (1992) by the Cuban dissident Reinaldo Arenas—who contracted AIDS and died in the U.S.—and which was adapted into the film Before Night Falls ( 2000) starring Javier Bardem and Johnny Depp —to contemporary comics from Chile by Victoria Rubio, better known as…