“Men in transvestite”: Carnival, criminality and “sexual inversion” in Rio de Janeiro in the 1950s and 1960s

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Autor(a) principal: Soliva, Thiago Barcelos
Data de Publicação: 2022
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: por
Título da fonte: Anos 90 (Online)
Texto Completo: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/anos90/article/view/120461
Resumo: At the beginning of the 20th century, the Rio’s Carnival drew the attention of national and international observers to one of its most outstanding phenomena: the “men in transvestites”. Such concern was materialized in the great variety of photographs and travel films that reveal the variety of these characters playing in the streets of the Federal Capital. This presence is so characteristic of the revelry that the authorities admitted in the communication vehicles of the time that they were not able to repress it. This article sought to analyze the construction of the classification “men in transvestites” as a category related to gender and sexuality in two newspapers with wide circulation in the Rio’s press: O Globo and Última Hora in the period of the 1950s and 1960s. In the attention paid by police authorities, the press and specialists such as the doctor Leonídio Ribeiro, a scientific authority called by the newspapers of the time to talk about the dangers that “men in transvestites” posed to public order.
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spelling “Men in transvestite”: Carnival, criminality and “sexual inversion” in Rio de Janeiro in the 1950s and 1960s“Homens em travesti”: carnaval, criminalidade e “inversão sexual” no Rio de Janeiro nas décadas de 1950 e 1960CarnavalTravestiCriminalidade.SexualidadesCorposDissidênciasAt the beginning of the 20th century, the Rio’s Carnival drew the attention of national and international observers to one of its most outstanding phenomena: the “men in transvestites”. Such concern was materialized in the great variety of photographs and travel films that reveal the variety of these characters playing in the streets of the Federal Capital. This presence is so characteristic of the revelry that the authorities admitted in the communication vehicles of the time that they were not able to repress it. This article sought to analyze the construction of the classification “men in transvestites” as a category related to gender and sexuality in two newspapers with wide circulation in the Rio’s press: O Globo and Última Hora in the period of the 1950s and 1960s. In the attention paid by police authorities, the press and specialists such as the doctor Leonídio Ribeiro, a scientific authority called by the newspapers of the time to talk about the dangers that “men in transvestites” posed to public order.O carnaval carioca já no início do século XX chamou a atenção de observadores nacionais e internacionais para um de seus mais destacados fenômenos: os “homens em travesti”. Tal preocupação foi materializada na grande variedade de fotografias e filmes de viagem que revelam a variedade desses personagens brincando nas ruas da então Capital Federal. Essa presença é tão característica da folia que as autoridades admitiam nos veículos de comunicação da época não conseguir reprimi-la. Este artigo buscou analisar a construção da classificação “homens em travesti” como uma categoria relacionada ao gênero e a sexualidade em dois jornais de ampla circulação na imprensa carioca: O Globo e o Última Hora no período das décadas de 1950 e 1960. O foco analítico recaiu na atenção dispensada por autoridades policiais, imprensa e especialistas, como o médico Leonídio Ribeiro, autoridade científica acionada pelos jornais da época para falar sobre os perigos que representavam os “homens em travesti” para a ordem pública.UFRGS2022-12-30info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionPesquisa histórica e antropológicaapplication/pdfhttps://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/anos90/article/view/12046110.22456/1983-201X.120461Anos 90; Vol. 29 (2022); 1-14Anos 90; v. 29 (2022); 1-141983-201X0104-236Xreponame:Anos 90 (Online)instname:Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)instacron:UFRGS-30porhttps://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/anos90/article/view/120461/88110Copyright (c) 2022 Anos 90info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessSoliva, Thiago Barcelos2023-08-14T23:18:28Zoai:seer.ufrgs.br:article/120461Revistahttps://seer.ufrgs.br/anos90PUBhttps://seer.ufrgs.br/anos90/oaianos90@ufrgs.br||1983-201X0104-236Xopendoar:2023-08-14T23:18:28Anos 90 (Online) - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)false
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv “Men in transvestite”: Carnival, criminality and “sexual inversion” in Rio de Janeiro in the 1950s and 1960s
“Homens em travesti”: carnaval, criminalidade e “inversão sexual” no Rio de Janeiro nas décadas de 1950 e 1960
title “Men in transvestite”: Carnival, criminality and “sexual inversion” in Rio de Janeiro in the 1950s and 1960s
spellingShingle “Men in transvestite”: Carnival, criminality and “sexual inversion” in Rio de Janeiro in the 1950s and 1960s
Soliva, Thiago Barcelos
Carnaval
Travesti
Criminalidade.
Sexualidades
Corpos
Dissidências
title_short “Men in transvestite”: Carnival, criminality and “sexual inversion” in Rio de Janeiro in the 1950s and 1960s
title_full “Men in transvestite”: Carnival, criminality and “sexual inversion” in Rio de Janeiro in the 1950s and 1960s
title_fullStr “Men in transvestite”: Carnival, criminality and “sexual inversion” in Rio de Janeiro in the 1950s and 1960s
title_full_unstemmed “Men in transvestite”: Carnival, criminality and “sexual inversion” in Rio de Janeiro in the 1950s and 1960s
title_sort “Men in transvestite”: Carnival, criminality and “sexual inversion” in Rio de Janeiro in the 1950s and 1960s
author Soliva, Thiago Barcelos
author_facet Soliva, Thiago Barcelos
author_role author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Soliva, Thiago Barcelos
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Carnaval
Travesti
Criminalidade.
Sexualidades
Corpos
Dissidências
topic Carnaval
Travesti
Criminalidade.
Sexualidades
Corpos
Dissidências
description At the beginning of the 20th century, the Rio’s Carnival drew the attention of national and international observers to one of its most outstanding phenomena: the “men in transvestites”. Such concern was materialized in the great variety of photographs and travel films that reveal the variety of these characters playing in the streets of the Federal Capital. This presence is so characteristic of the revelry that the authorities admitted in the communication vehicles of the time that they were not able to repress it. This article sought to analyze the construction of the classification “men in transvestites” as a category related to gender and sexuality in two newspapers with wide circulation in the Rio’s press: O Globo and Última Hora in the period of the 1950s and 1960s. In the attention paid by police authorities, the press and specialists such as the doctor Leonídio Ribeiro, a scientific authority called by the newspapers of the time to talk about the dangers that “men in transvestites” posed to public order.
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