““A real bacchanal, a stupid thing”: anti-communism, sexuality and youth in the time of dictatorship

• Autor(a) principal: Brito, Antonio Mauricio Freitas
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Anos 90 (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/anos90/article/view/90662
• topic: Anticomunismo – Juventude – Ditadura – Política sexual - Moral; Anticomunismo; Juventude; Ditadura; Anticommunism. Youth. Dictatorship. Sexual politics. Moral.

Supported by sources produced by the National Information Service, police reports, press demonstrations and memorial press, the article presents some heteronormative anti-communist representations made by the military and police on sexuality and youth during a dictatorship in Brazil. From the concern with the communist action with the youth, the concept of a social communication strategy and thematic of deviant gender behaviors, associating them with a communist strategy of subversion of the behavior to corrupt the youth. Anti-communist representations were politicized and spread by repressive agents also for a dispute over the course of the regime. This anticomunism extended subversion into the moral and sexual field by updating new fears and dangers in the light of the racing experiences of the 1960s and 70s, while inspiring the dogmas of the anti-communist imaginary built in Brazil since the nineteenth century. It is suggested the importance of works that analyze the moralizingBrazilian anticommunism on a transnational scale and connected with a medium/long term conservatism.