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The Ateneo de la Juventud Mexicana and its members have been studied and mythicized constantly. However, some of their aspects have not been explored yet, especially those that could contribute to our understanding of the definitions and practices of gender and sexuality in the imagination of the Mexican intelligentsia, both prerevolutionary and postrevolutionary, and about the homosociality that runs throughout intellectual history. In this article, I analyze Pedro Henríquez Ureña and Alfonso Reyes, two of the Ateneo's founders, in that youth in which they could experiment with and negotiate their masculinities, and where there also existed a homoerotic component. Centered on the night of December 25, 1908, when they held a meeting to celebrate the birth of Dionysus and read Plato's Symposium , I argue that the Athenaeists had to decide if they would allow themselves an explicit homoerotism, whether they would be Dionysian or Apollonian intellectuals and, therefore, whether they would write poetry or essays. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Este ensayo esboza un diálogo intertextual y diacrónico sobre muestras singulares del homoerotismo literario en el Caribe hispano. Mediante El ángel de Sodoma (1928), el cubano Alfonso Hernández Catá (1885-1940) establece al atormentado homosexual estereotípico como punto de partida. Dos décadas después, el dominicano Pedro René Contín Aybar (1907-1981) poetiza un amor homoerótico realizable en Biel el marino (1943). Finalmente, el puertorriqueño Juan Antonio Rodríguez Pagán (1947-2007) manipula la picaresca en Ondergraund.com (2007) bajo un lente pornoerótico. Nuestro artículo explora elementos extra- y paratextuales, así como algunas de las estrategias de (re)producción y circulación implementadas por estos autores. Además, interpreta como negociaciones --efectuadas por los escritores abiertamente homosexuales o por los protagonistas queer-- el privilegio de la figura pública heterosexual, el sexilio, el sujeto tácito (Decena 2011) y la migración. Proponemos que esta mirada desde la investigación textual permite indagar modos adicionales de plasmar el homoerotismo y las tendencias críticas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Autobiographical writings with homoerotic content have constantly reflected the struggles between dissident identities and heteronormative systems. The case of Antes que anochezca (1992) by Reinaldo Arenas is no exception. Therefore, the hypothesis of this analysis states that the pride of the hypersexualized dissident subject --in this case, an autobiographical subject-- appears as a tool of normative destabilization in the face of sex-gender systems that promote heteropatriarchal masculinity and sexuality. Consequently, Arenas' speech incites a rereading of the body to dismantle it from the bonds imposed by the devices of power --especially that which corresponds to the idea of the "hombre nuevo" emanating from the Cuban Revolution--. It also traces the representation of a dissident subject that does not adhere to the ideology of the global North, but rather to a vision adhered to the system of Mediterranean desire, governed by the sexual dichotomy of the active/passive axis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Botto’s aestheticism, abundantly emphasized by two of the critics most committed to pointing out the qualities of his poetry, Fernando Pessoa and José Régio, constitutes one of the most relevant aspects of his lyricism and stems from the desire to create beauty through art. To this incessant search for beauty corresponds a constant experience of exile. The purpose of this presentation is to highlight at least three different meanings for both the term “beauty” and the term “exile” invoked in the title. Both can be read in a more abstract sense of an ideal of life, which hovers above the hardships of the real world. Both can be related to the poet’s work, in search of a singular language that effectively expresses his lyrical identity, his worldview and aesthetically identifies his work. And both can be related to the search for an effective space in which a human being seeks to find the necessary conditions for a dignified life, even far from his country of origin. All these connotations will be woven into this text. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Portuguese poetess Maria da Cunha (1872-1917) had a troubled life. She married in 1895, published her book of poetry, Trindades, in 1909, with a second edition in 1911, divorced in May 1912 and emigrated to Brazil. Maria da Cunha arrived in Rio de Janeiro on September 16th, after a brief stay in France, accompanied by the journalist Virgínia Quaresma (1882-1973). The poetess then had to live off her own work. She got a job at the Rio newspaper A Época, where she was cultural editor and columnist and where she published some poems until mid-1914. Afterwards, she traveled between Rio and São Paulo, giving conferences and living with the immigrant Portuguese writer Ana de Villalobos Galheto (1863-1944) and with the Brazilian poetess and educator Eunice Caldas (1879-1967), until she died, in São Paulo, on January 1st, 1917. In this article, I present some biographical data about this writer, mainly from her last years, and how Brazil appears in her poetic and chronicle works. I will highlight part of her sociability network and how women are important in her production. I will point out how affection for women appears in her texts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes the construction of the character Gouveia, in "O Menino do Gouveia", published at 1914, in the pornographic weekly O Rio-nú, a magazine that circulated between the years 1898 and 1916. From the presence of the name/term Gouveia, its origin in an article in the newspaper O paiz, and its representation, we traced the obscene imaginary responsible for creating such a character and its unfoldings that will lead to the production of this narrative. It analyzes the role of the media and the textual representations that become fundamental for the theme of the short story, as well as for its mass circulation and commercialization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Pink Capitalism is a market that has emerged in the last 30 years in the western world along with a greater immersion of sexual and gender dissidents into the public space. Through the following article, we will take a historical journey from the homoerotic meeting spaces in Santiago de Chile to the current forms of LGBTQ + sociability in order to understand the moment when the LGBTQ+ community became a client within a viable market and the effects that this has had on the community itself. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Research related to homoeroticism is still scarce in the academic environment and for this same reason; a great deal of subjectivity around the word is generated. This work aims to contribute to such discussions. We will use as an object of study the poem Ode Marítima by Álvaro de Campos, heteronym of the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa, that had 127 of them, but Álvaro is one of the three most complete. We live in a time when gender issues have been widely debated and the word homosexuality, to refer to works of a nature related to sexual orientation and / or gender identity, has been used inappropriately. In this study, we sought a way of reframing the theme from the analysis of the aforementioned work, making it possible to highlight our view of the problem of homoeroticism that does not fall into the error of stereotyped erotic sexual labeling. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Research related to homoeroticism is still scarce in the academic environment and for this same reason; a great deal of subjectivity around the word is generated. This work aims to contribute to such discussions. We will use as an object of study the poem Ode Marítima by Álvaro de Campos, heteronym of the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa, that had 127 of them, but Álvaro is one of the three most complete. We live in a time when gender issues have been widely debated and the word homosexuality, to refer to works of a nature related to sexual orientation and / or gender identity, has been used inappropriately. In this study, we sought a way of reframing the theme from the analysis of the aforementioned work, making it possible to highlight our view of the problem of homoeroticism that does not fall into the error of stereotyped erotic sexual labeling. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of the article is to present the processes of regulation and victimization of homoeroticism among men in contexts of armed conflict in Colombia. In methodological terms, the research was framed from a social memory perspective, which establishes the centrality of the testimony of victims and the different stories woven around them. In general, it found that armed conflict scenarios shape ambivalent gender and sexual mechanisms in which elimination and persecution are expressed together with the coexistence and the exercise of sexuality between men. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Considering the collection Poesia gay brasileira: antologia, from 2017, we study how male homoeroticism is represented in poems written between the 19th and 21st centuries, and if such poems, from this representation, can be analyzed as gay ones. For that, we take into account the notions of homoeroticism and gay literature circumscribed by José Carlos Barcellos (2006). In the work we present, three poems were analyzed and described in more detail: "A um moçoilo" by Junqueira Freire, "Rapto" by Carlos Drummond de Andrade, and "Julieu e Romito" by Horácio Costa, written respectively in the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. As a result of this comparative research, it was concluded that the poems of the anthology researched present gay nuances only from the second half of the 20th century on in Brazil. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim is to examine the similarities and differences between the works of Alair Gomes and Rotimi Fani-Kayode. The central argument points out that both sought to exploit the subversive potential of homoeroticism by bringing to light the existence of dissident spaces and times that destabilize repulsive norms to homoerotic sociability. Gomes revealed subversive spaces in which the desire for the naked male body and the pleasure of the voyeur could be instigated and developed narratives that captured the spontaneity and sensuality of the moment. Fani-Kayode emphasized the spatial and cultural deplacement and the multiple temporalities that coexisted in the same environment. He questioned hierarchies based on the spiritual and homoerotic fantasy and the exaltation of cultural and sexual difference. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work makes a brief historical passage regarding the ancestral literary traditions that act as a founding discourse of the long history of sexual repression in the West to understand the homoerotic literature as a space for contestation and reallocation of dissident sexualities. From the subtle manifestations of Gothic homoeroticism, one can see the emergence of a gay literature, especially marginal in literary circles, as well as the extension of the homoaffective theme in television fiction and more recently in advertising, as a result of the engage ment, according to identity issues of literature and soap opera professionals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The next article analyzes the literary production of Jorge Cáceres and Jorge Onfray, two poets whose work are relevant to study the representation of the subjectivity and the homoerotic spaces existing in the Chilean culture during the fifties decade. Thus, the hypothesis postulated is that both poets turn to a seductive enunciation to say and unsay, deceptively, the divergent masculinity of their poetic voices. Cáceres works with surrealism and Onfray with carnival and a marvelous language. In both cases, these are rhetoric strategies that, through occultation and allegory, allows these poets to overcome the censorship and criminalization exercised through this time against the public expression of homoerotic desire. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses the cinematic representation of female homoerotic practices, seeking to understand how these elements constitute a negotiation between culture and aesthetics, which processes an uprooting of what is normative; both in social practices and in representation, highlighting cultural identities. Considering the path indicated by Beatriz Jaguaribe, using the French film Blue is the warmest colour as a corpus, we propose an analytical reading experience of contemporary shock, pointing to the influence and relevance of aesthetic realism used by the director Abdellatif Kechiche, in the construction of scenes to sensitize the viewer through homoerotic themes; intensifying frames that may be unnoticed, formatting what Jaguaribe denotes as "the shock of the real" and "pedagogy of reality". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The core discussion in this paper focuses on the apprehension of the imaginary corresponding to the social reality of the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935). Our main concern lies on its descriptive effects according to an analysis of the homoerotic images that can be grasped in Ode Marítima by Álvaro de Campos, Pessoa's most undisciplined and impetuous heteronym. Ode Marítima was first published in 1925 in Orpheu, a magazine that gave rise to Portuguese Modernism. We believe that the issues we highlight herein, based on the confrontation between the anguish felt by the 'lyric I' and the 'closet' (Sedgwick, 2007), permit a glimpse of the Pessoan imaginary coercively marked by heteronormativity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Within the prolific work of Carlos Pellicer, poetry books Hora de junio (1937) and Recinto y otras imágenes (1941) occupy a special place because they present textual, symbolic and intertextual elements to support the thesis that are poems that reveal the theme of love between men, but especially the topic of "secret love". In this paper symbolic elements that allow elucidate the construction of a homosexual poetic in Pellicer are analysed, especially because the use of understatement and impersonal pronouns allows the poet to build his dissenting secret love, that he doesn't dare to name at a time when homoerotic experience is not visible and doesn't correspond to the notion that the postrevolutionary state has of masculinity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to present the read / stretch analysis of one of the letters written by António Nobre to Alberto de Oliveira. This analysis is part of the research activities about the correspondence between the two poets, under the senior stage in the University of Coimbra, sponsored by CAPES. The aim is to present a possible interpretation of the text of one of António Nobre letters from the homoeroticism assumed as a category of literary texts approach. The focus on the friendship between the two poets, enable the consistency of the chosen approach, supported by ideas of Roland Barthes, Sigmund Freud, Jurandir Freire Costa and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. The work is rounded by the scope of Comparative Literature in Chapter recognized as Aesthetics of reception. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recounting their experiences and significations around sexual pleasure, the gay men in Mexico City outlined a masculinity highly valued in erotic terms, but different in terms of identity. The masculinity of others is desired, but it is also the limit for to produce the own identity. An hyperbolic virility, sexually saturated, but distant in subjective and social terms, is objectified and fetishized. Thus, the masculinity of the others is a way to eroticize the class relations: theothers are working-class and virile, far away of the gay sociability circuits. Gay men cross their social spaces in search of these men, delineating subjectives and erotics paths through of a city structured around social inequality and ethnic and racial differences. The pursuit of pleasure is also a journey into the social and sexual difference. In this article we develop these narratives, using discussion groups of a qualitative research among gay men of different ages living in the Mexico City. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay discusses the homosocial bonds in ¡Harka! (CARLOS ARÉVALO, 1941) as examples of a general idiosyncrasy regarding sexuality and gender in postwar Franco's Spain. This film, that reveals militaristic and propagandistic features, as has been noted by film scholars (JULIO PÉREZ PERUCHA, 1998; FELIX FANÉS, 1982) precisely delved into the murky relationship of the two protagonists, Valcázar Santiago and Carlos Herrera. Linking this traditional perspective with post-feminist and psychoanalytic studies, I propose to analyze the cinematographic forms assumed by the peculiar relationship between Valcázar and Herrera and their analogies with gender and race repression. The homoerotic contact is here related to a broader compendium of social interactions that are relatively regulated in a system in which certain types of gender and sexuality are unquestionable pillars. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The novel Epifanía de una sombra (2000), by Mauricio Wacquez, constitutes a starting point for a new reading of two well-known Chilean intellectuals: BenjamínSubercaseaux and Luis Oyarzún. Just like these latter, Wacquez represents the childhood as a space of existential discovery and possibly, a critical perspective of the family scheme. Similarly to the young characters of Daniel. Niño de lluvia (1938), by Subercaseaux, and La infancia (1940) y Los días ocultos (1955), by Oyarzún, Santiago, the main character of Epifanía, offers a way of reading the formation of masculinity during the first half of the XXth Century in Chile, by proposing subversive aesthetic and gender/sexual imaginations that differ from the normalizing discourses constructed by political and social institutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to discuss homoerotic experiences between women as a way of transgression to heteronormative patterns. Apparently, female homoerotic experiences seem to be better accepted by society than male ones. Would this fact represent even a better acceptance of female homosexuality compared to male one, or would it be only a sign of a more subtle violence? In this theoretical essay, we use the concept of femininity, discussed by Brazilian psychoanalyst Joel Birman, as a way of thinking some questions about female homoeroticism . [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The denomination "homosexual" or "homosexualism" remit us to the conception and representation of homogenital sexual practices as pathological, perverse, and diverted. Many authors prefer the notion of "homoeroticism" because of the major clarity of this term, since it better describes the plurality of practices and wishes of men oriented towards the same sex. Homoeroticism moves away from the possibility of association with illness, divergence, anormality or pervertion. It denies the idea that there exists something like a "homosexual substance," organic or psychiatric, that is common to all men with homoerotic tendencies. Moreover, the term does not have a noun form which indicates identity, as is the case of homosexualism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nowadays, male sex work is becoming an attractive option for young men in both rich and poor countries. This article offers an anthropological approach to male sex work in Xalapa, Veracruz. It discusses self-definition of sex workers and cultural features that support homosexual practices related to gender, the body, desire and sexuality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The current Costa Rican narrative includes topics that have never been written about before, such as Uriel Quesada's text, where gay issues and homoerotism are approached from the narrator-witness-protagonist's voice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Buscamos analisar as representações homoeróticas no Lampião da Esquina, entre 1978 e 1981, para compreender como os discursos sobre homossexualismo, no jornal produzido por homossexuais, representavam esses sujeitos durante a formação de grupos homossexuais militantes no Brasil. O objetivo principal deste trabalho é interpretar a construção de sentidos e as práticas discursivas que tensionaram as representações homoeróticas do sexo masculino nas páginas do Lampião da Esquina. Além disso, objetivamos algumas pautas secundárias e específicas: historicizar o Lampião da Esquina; apresentar as relações de tensão envolvendo o jornal, seus leitores e os grupos homossexuais militantes; e, por fim, analisar as representações homoeróticas que indicavam maior divergência no Lampião da Esquina sobre práticas efeminadas. Para isso, partimos de uma simples questão: -Como as práticas discursivas no jornal desconstruíam estereótipos e reconstruíam tipos ideais que incentivavam os homossexuais a assumirem sua sexualidade? Como referencial teórico, adotamos as reflexões de Michel Foucault sobre análise de discurso e de Judith Butler sobre o conceito de performatividade. Metodologicamente, partimos da contextualização histórica e seleção das fontes. Em seguida analisamos, principalmente, as seções Opinião e Cartas na Mesa. Efetuamos uma análise de discurso sobre as seções citadas para compor um arquivo a respeito da representação de homossexuais do sexo masculino, no qual aparecem as representações analisadas. Dessas representações destacamos as que se referiam à efeminação, a travestilidades e a masculinidades, porque nos parecem expressar melhor as relações de poder entre os sujeitos envolvidos na produção discursiva observada no periódico. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]