Lampião da Esquina: (re) existências homossexuais na ditadura civil-militar-cisheteronormativa (1978-1981)

Abstract

Based on an intersectional perspective, the current monograph aims to report the birth of the newspaper Lampião da Esquina (1978-1981), source of this research, in the final years of the Brazilian civil-military-cisheternormative regime. Renan Quinalha, in his thesis, Contra a Moral e os Bons Costumes: a Política Sexual da Ditadura Brasileira (1964-1988) [Against Morality and Good Manners: The Sexual Politics of The Brazilian Dictatorship] defend that the dictatorship was a producer of a heternormative sexual policy. From this perspective of civil-military-cishetersexual dictatorship is raised a debate about gender and sexuality considering the period addressed here from the contributions of James N. Green (2019) Renan Quinalha (2017) João Silvério Trevisan (2018) e Edward MacRae (2018) essential authors to understand the persecutions of dissident's sexualities occurred in the period. The newspaper made by and for the homosexual public comes amid a movement in late 1977, period in which women tried to organize themselves and also black sought to bring to discussion their questions about racism and black culture.