"More Love and More Desire": A History of the Brazil Lesbian, Gay, and Transgendered Movement

Authors

James N. Green, Brown University

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Summer 2002

Abstract

For many LGBT activists, the 1969 Stonewall rebellion marked the beginning of a modern international liberation movement. Diffusing outward from New York, so the prevalent notion goes, homosexuals began to organize political movements to demand equal rights, inspired by the militancy of U.S. queers. According to this widely held idea, the emergence of gay and lesbian groups was slower in "Third World countries" because of authoritarian regimes, patriarchal social structures, and backward societies.

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This article was originally published in CLAGSNews, vol. 12, no. 2.