Working with rich fabrics, fine lace and flowers, gay stylists have long played a key role in dressing the Virgin Mary figures carried through the streets of southern Spain during Holy Week. But their participation in this week of religious processions which marks the peak of the Catholic calendar comes at a price: silence about their sexuality.

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