Lesbian Voices and Radical Feminism within the Brazilian « Homosexual Movement » of the 1970s and Early 1980s

Abstract

This essay is part of a project entitled « Generation 77: Politicized Youth in São Paulo and the Demise of the Brazilian Dictatorship ». It studies the roles that Paulistano students, youth, and new social movement activists, played in mobilizations against the military dictatorship. In this essay, I focus on the early years of the small lesbian movement in São Paulo that developed in the midst of the process of democratization and offered a radical critique of sectors of an emergent women’s movement and traditional Marxist ideas that still had purchase among many radicalized youth.