Abstract
ABSTRACT The article proposes the existence of an actorial network that created a character-type of the male homosexual, which could be called the bicha louca (crazy fag). Actors such as Nestor Montemar, Raul Cortez, Ítalo Rossi and Emiliano Queiroz participated in this network, contributing to the theatre being a space of visibility for the LGBT population and of resistance to the moral and political repression in the period of the Brazilian civil-military dictatorship (1964-1985).
Highlights
We present and discuss the hypothesis of a networked actorial process to construct the male homosexual character between the late 1960s and the early 1970s, against the background of the ideological devices and apparatuses of the State that operated during the civil-military dictatorship
It can be said that when Nestor Montemar appears onstage playing the character Pedro, in Greta Garbo..., he is supported by a network that had started to be formed a little before and became more visible from 1967 onwards, the year in which, to limit ourselves only to male homosexuality and to certain remarkable shows, the following were staged in São Paulo: Navalha na carne, by Plínio Marcos, in which Veludo was played by Edgar Gurgel Aranha16, and O rei da vela, by Oswald de Andrade, produced by Grupo Oficina theatre company; and in Rio de Janeiro, with the aforementioned Queridinho
With the gradual conquest of a measure of visibility for the LGBT population, within what can be achieved in a society quite averse to sexual diversity, the excesses in the performance of male homosexual characters or of female characters, when played by male actors - seem to progressively move from a more conventional theatre to the field of Drag Queen performances. This shift occurs through a reinforcement of a realistic aesthetic in the theatrical and television sphere: even social movements and performance groups advocating for LGBTs seem to demand the onstage presence of a diversity of homosexual men without confining them to the supposedly of Actorial Work in Brazil during the Civil-Military Dictatorship (1964-1985)
Summary
We present and discuss the hypothesis of a networked actorial process to construct the male homosexual character between the late 1960s and the early 1970s, against the background of the ideological devices and apparatuses of the State that operated during the civil-military dictatorship.
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