{"id":68,"date":"2014-04-22T20:01:15","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T20:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/beyondcarnival\/?page_id=68"},"modified":"2014-04-22T20:01:15","modified_gmt":"2014-04-22T20:01:15","slug":"the-development-of-homosexual-subcultures","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/beyondcarnival\/chapter-4\/the-development-of-homosexual-subcultures\/","title":{"rendered":"The Diversification of the Homosexual Subculture"},"content":{"rendered":"

The end of the Vargas dictatorship<\/strong> and the process of democratization coincided with economic changes including greater foreign investment, an increased cultural influence of the United States, and an expanding post-WWII economy. Together, these changes created dramatic shifts in Brazilian society and ultimately produced new urban spaces that futher attracted homosexuals from throughout the country. In these new spaces, new homosexual cultural expressions developed and distinct subcultures began to develop within the larger\u00a0homosexual subculture.<\/p>\n

Shifting gender norms<\/strong> in Brazilian society influenced the emergence of a new homosexual persona, the entendido<\/em>,\u00a0who was less inclined to imitate the masculine\/feminine gender binary and instead presented a more discreet public image. While the\u00a0bicha\/bofe\u00a0<\/em>paradigm persisted among the lower classes, the entendido<\/em> tended to come from the “modern” postwar middle class.<\/p>\n

Click on the picture below to read Gato Preto’s article calling for an\u00a0end to the dominance of\u00a0the\u00a0bicha\/bofe\u00a0<\/em>paradigm.<\/p>\n

\"gato<\/a><\/p>\n

In 1958<\/strong>, sociologist Jos\u00e9 F\u00e1bio Barbosa da Silva wrote a thesis on\u00a0homosexuality in S\u00e3o Paulo. Unlike the medico-legal researchers\u00a0of the 1930s, Silva approached his study by conceptualizing homosexuals as a minority group with a distinct subculture. Since Silva’s methodology avoided male prostitutes and flamboyant, effeminate homosexuals, his work provides us a rare glimpse into the lives of the middle-class entendidos<\/em> of the time. Click on the following preview for the text in its entirety.<\/p>\n

\""Aspetos<\/a>

“Aspectos sociol\u00f3gicos do homossexualismo em S\u00e3o Paulo”<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The end of the Vargas dictatorship and the process of democratization coincided with economic changes including greater foreign investment, an increased cultural influence of the United States, and an expanding post-WWII economy. Together, these changes created dramatic shifts in Brazilian society and ultimately produced new urban spaces that futher attracted homosexuals from throughout the country. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"parent":54,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-68","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/beyondcarnival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/beyondcarnival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/beyondcarnival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/beyondcarnival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/beyondcarnival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/beyondcarnival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/beyondcarnival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/54"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/beyondcarnival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}