 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).In the end, Haya has never been found to have had any sexual partners of either gender.