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In Blue Jeans, Brazilian playwright Zeno Wilde pits a middle-class male homosexual against a series of young hustlers, but preemptively and inexplicably silences the former to foreground the socioeconomic underpinnings of prostitution. In this essay, I argue that, in front of an audience, the queer landscape of desire and identity which Wilde creates through the hustlers' confessional stories transforms the homosexual protagonist's silence into a powerful rhetorical and performative space. In the final part of the essay, I read the death of the voiceless "faggot" in juxtaposition with the play's erotic epilogue to reclaim Blue Jeans's potential as a powerful and necessary protest in opposition to the violence perpetrated against homosexuals and other members of the queer community in Brazil today. |
