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qUCL ONLINE: Sexo & Revolución. Radical Homosexual Movements of 1970s Latin America
07 December 2020, 6:00 pm–7:00 pm
In an effort to historicize the recent expansion of LGBTQ rights in Latin America, Dr. Patricio Simonetto will provide an insight into the pioneering homosexual movements that were active in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Mexico between the late 1960s and the early 1980s, and whose legacies continue to reverberate today.
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In an effort to historicize the recent expansion of LGBTQ rights in Latin America, Dr. Patricio Simonetto will provide an insight into the pioneering homosexual movements that were active in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Mexico between the late 1960s and the early 1980s, and whose legacies continue to reverberate today. By focusing on the Argentine Frente de Liberación Homosexual, which struggled for a “social and sexual revolution,” and drawing comparisons with similar experiences in the region, Simonetto will challenge a common narrative that portrays Latin America’s LGBTQ movements as mere by products of a global—usually US-centered—phenomenon.
This event is organised by qUCL, which is part of the UCL Institute of Advanced Studies.
The participation of Patricio Simonetto in this event has been funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie-Sklodowka Curie grant number 886496.
About the Speaker
Dr Patricio Simonetto
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at UCL Institute of the Americas
He is the author of Between Injury and Revolution: The Frente de Liberación Homosexual in Argentina [Entre la injuria y la revolución. El Frente de Liberación Homosexual en la Argentina] (2017) and Money is Not Everything: The purchase and sale of sex in Argentina in the 20th century [El dinero no es todo. La compra y venta de sexo en la Argentina del siglo XX] (2019). He specializes in the social and cultural history of sexuality in Latin America. His new research project studies the making of "sex change" in Argentina during the XXth century.
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