| Abstrakt: |
Mexico's gay history, and its relationship with sensationalist press, is defined by an event occurring in 1901: La Redada del Baile de los 41, in which at three in the morning of 1901 police raided a gathering of homosexuals in downtown Mexico City, incarcerating 41 of them - 22 dressed as men and 19 as transvestites. This event set a precedent in the press moral lynching of men dressed as women that a century has changed very little. My paper historicizes the photographs of men dressed as women, Mujercitos, in the periodicals Alarma during the 70's in Mexico. Through a juxtaposition of textual and visuals on the tabloids I suggest a destabilization of the discourse of homosexuals in Mexico. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
