“Who Is the Macho Who Wants to Kill Me?” Male Homosexuality, Revolutionary Masculinity, and the Brazilian Armed Struggle of the 1960s and 1970s.

The article discusses homosexuality among members of revolutionary, Marxist groups in Brazil during the 1960s and 1970s, how gay revolutionaries coped with their sexual orientation and political ideology, and how other revolutionaries reacted to their gay peers. Topics include how gay revolutionaries were sometimes executed, the idea that the fight for gay rights fractured the otherwise united revolution, and the roles gay revolutionaries played in the reorganized, liberal Brazilian government.