Editing Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre (section)

==Personal life==
The lack of love interests in Haya de la Torre's life was sometimes remarked upon. Haya de la Torre once stated to APRA members: ''El APRA es mi mujer y ustedes son mis hijos'' ("The Apra is my wife and you [the members] are my children"). However, rumours of homosexuality were scattered around the country during and after his life by his political enemies, generally in a crudely homophobic fashion.<ref name=":0" />

Haya de la Torre clearly liked the company of young men. André Coyne, a well-respected French literary critic who happened to be both a good friend of Haya's and the loyal lover and supporter of the Peruvian expatriate poet [[César Moro]], states that Haya sometimes went to "bares de muchachos" (literally "young men's bars") with him, but that he doesn't know whether Haya "ejercía" (i.e., practiced homosexuality).<ref name=":0">''Llámalo amor, si quieres'', Toño Angulo Daneri. [[Lima]], Aguilar, 2004</ref> Some personal letters from a close European male friend have also been interpreted as indicating a romantic partnership.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Sobrevilla |first=Natalia |date=2022-06-26 |title=El profundo clóset de la historia |url=https://jugo.pe/%EF%BF%BCel-profundo-closet-de-la-historia/ |access-date=2024-05-08 |website=Jugo |language=es}}</ref> In the end, Haya has never been found to have had any sexual partners of either gender.{{Citation needed|date=May 2024}} His supporters have sometimes claimed he had female lovers.

There have been claims that Haya de la Torre secretly married his close friend and sympathizer Ana Billinghurst (daughter of former president [[Guillermo Billinghurst]]) in 1923, but they seem to have been shown to be unfounded.<ref>{{Cite web |date=February 26, 2009 |title="La foto es auténtica, pero no es Haya de la Torre" |url=https://semanariocontigoperu.wordpress.com/2009/02/26/la-foto-es-autentica-pero-no-es-haya-de-la-torre/}}</ref> In the 1950s the APRA leader was forced into asylum by General Odria at the [[Embassy of Colombia, Lima|Colombian Embassy]] in Lima. Ana Billinghurst died while he was under diplomatic protection and he was unable to attend her funeral.