Un beso de Dick
Fernando Molano Vargas

NOVEL | 2025 | 204 pages

Sixteen-year-old Felipe dreams of becoming a football star. He also dreams of Leonardo, his classmate, teammate, and the boy he loves. Set in Bogotá at the end of the 1980s, Un beso de Dick follows Felipe as he stumbles into the exhilarating and terrifying experience of first love. As his feelings for Leonardo deepen, he must navigate friendship, desire, jealousy, and the unwritten rules of a society that has little room for boys like him. Yet what begins as a private longing gradually becomes a journey toward self-acceptance. Told through Felipe’s witty, disarming, and deeply personal voice, the novel captures the emotional intensity of adolescence with rare honesty and tenderness. Blending humor, vulnerability, and heartbreak, Fernando Molano Vargas creates an unforgettable portrait of a young man discovering who he is and how much he is willing to risk for love.

Originally published in 1992, Un beso de Dick is a landmark of Latin American queer literature, and a timeless coming-of-age story about desire, identity, and the courage to imagine a future beyond the limits imposed by others.

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