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~ James N. Green (Author) "As Brazil entered the twentieth century, Rio de Janeiro, nestled among towering granite hills and surrounded by a broad bay on one side and the..." (more)
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This extensively researched and engagingly written dissertation by Green (history, California State Univ., Long Beach) "acts as a bridge between historical analyses of the medicolegal discourses of the 1930s and the anthropological studies of contemporary Brazilian homosexuals." Beginning with a description of male cruising in public parks at the turn of the century and concluding with the emergence, in the 1970s, of a gay and lesbian rights movement, Green's book weaves a rich and textured chronological narrative. Focusing on gay life in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, he expertly unearths the ways in which race, class, and gender operate in such areas as performance, slang, literature, prostitution, and cross dressing, noting similarities and differences to urban counterparts in America and Europe. Recommended for large public libraries.
-James E. Van Buskirk, San Francisco P.L.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.


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For many foreign observers, Brazil still conjures up a collage of exotic images, ranging from the camp antics of Carmen Miranda to the bronzed girl (or boy) from Ipanema moving sensually over the white sands of Rio's beaches. Among these tropical fantasies is that of the uninhibited and licentious Brazilian homosexual, who expresses uncontrolled sexuality during wild Carnival festivities and is welcomed by a society that accepts fluid sexual identity. However, in Beyond Carnival, the first sweeping cultural history of male homosexuality in Brazil, James Green shatters these exotic myths and replaces them with a complex picture of the social obstacles that confront Brazilian homosexuals.

Ranging from the late nineteenth century to the rise of a politicized gay and lesbian rights movement in the 1970s, Green's study focuses on male homosexual subcultures in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo. He uncovers the stories of men coping with arrests and street violence, dealing with family restrictions, and resisting both a hostile medical profession and moralizing influences of the Church. Green also describes how these men have created vibrant subcultures with alternative support networks for maintaining romantic and sexual relationships and for surviving in an intolerant social environment. He then goes on to trace how urban parks, plazas, cinemas, and beaches are appropriated for same-sex erotic encounters, bringing us into the world of street cruising, male hustlers, and cross-dressing prostitutes.

Through his creative use of police and medical records, newspapers, literature, newsletters, and extensive interviews, Green has woven a fascinating history, the first of its kind for Latin America, that will set the standard for future works.


Product Details

  • Hardcover: 416 pages
  • Publisher: University Of Chicago Press; 1 edition (February 1, 2000)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0226306380
  • ISBN-13: 978-0226306384
  • Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.4 x 1.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,126,512 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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As Brazil entered the twentieth century, Rio de Janeiro, nestled among towering granite hills and surrounded by a broad bay on one side and the Atlantic Ocean on the other, underwent remarkable transformations. Read the first page
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dos enxutos, pederastas passivos, term viado, medicolegal professionals, term entendido, falsas baianas, homossexual visto por entendidos, engenharia nos anos, dos homossexuais, carnaval carioca, homosexual appropriation, sua atividade, passive pederast, samba school parades, instinto sexual, sexual topography, cidade maravilhosa, inglés ver, dos artistas, costume competition, street festivities, homosexual subculture, drag balls, dos sexos, gay power
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Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Praça Tiradentes, United States, Ferraz de Macedo, Barbosa da Silva, Pires de Almeida, Municipal Theater, Viveiros de Castro, Madame Satá, New York, Madame Sata, Rio's Carnival, Gente Gay, Estado Novo, Joáo Francisco, Copacabana Palace Hotel, Dzi Croquettes, Leonídio Ribeiro, Kay Francis, Joao Francisco, Mário de Andrade, Pinel Sanatorium, Ultima Hora, Agildo Guimaráes
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5.0 out of 5 stars Best intro to emergence & eflorescence of gay Brazil, May 30, 2000
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Covering developments between 1890 and 1980, Green's book is the best place to begin to understand the appropriation of public space by gay male Brazilians. Besides seeming to have read everything written by or about male homosexuality in Brazil (his book's apparatus occupies more than a hundred pages), including archived forensic and psychiatric case records, Green draws on seventy life history interviews and a cache of illustrations from across the twentieth century.

Green shows that the gap between representation of rigid (masculine-active) bofe and (feminine-passive and frequently transvestite) bicha roles and how Brazilian males lived their sexualities increased during 1960s, and subsequently has been challenged in public discourse, but that behavior and purportedly universal norms were already noncongruent during the 1930s. Besides cataloging a history of growing bicha pride and steady bofe bashful ambivalence, Green also shows that bicha prominence in carnival is a tradition that is relatively recent, emerging during the 1950s, and suppressed for a few years at the beginning of the 1970s.

Green sensibly stresses the emergence during the 1950s and 60s of first bicha and then gay publications. The American homophile movement then also involved only a few determined individuals and fugitive publications. Rio's famed beaches have been important as places where men of varying economic status who are sexually interested in men meet - and socialize, and develop group consciousness, as well as engineering sexual liaisons. Brazilian gay clubs, bars, and restaurants cluster near beaches with gay enclaves.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Simply the best, May 14, 2000
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It's indeed the most important register on brazilian homosexuality ever done. Green is a genius and this book must be read not only by homosexuals, but all kind of people that would like to understand a little about the gay subculture in Brazil. The author is brilliant and deserves our respect.
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Anyone working on gender and sexuality in the Latin American context ought to take a look at this comprehensive history...doesn't only assume a social constructionist viewpoint but that of Brazilian scholars as well...check it out!
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