"CULTURAL REPRESSION IN THE LAST CIVIL MILITADICTATORSHIP: IDENTIT/ES IN DANGER"

Abstract

The dictatorial regime that governed the country from the year 1976 to 1983 must be understood as a practica! social genocide in is reorganising aspect. As such, I look to reconfigure, in an (im)measurable way, the social relations prevailing at the time through construction in the collective imagination of the "subversive delinquent" which was attached to any person who raised the flag of equality, autonomy and solidarity. In this way, the authorities advanced violently in the elimination of these subjects because the values they stood for "had to be" removed for being incompatible with the values of those that carried out the genocide. Within this framework, under the title of "Western Christian Civilisation", violence was perpetrated also against those who had distanced themselves from the "norm" and claimed another sexual orientation or identity. In the present work repression, and cultural repression in particular, is analysed considering people within the LGTBI community. To date, there has been no official recognition of the deaths of those who were exposed to this end: approximately 400 homosexuals, lesbians and transgender women. The present article seeks to be a contribution in remembrance of them, to recuperate their battles and honour their memory.