{"id":78,"date":"2014-04-22T20:16:54","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T20:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/beyondcarnival\/?page_id=78"},"modified":"2014-04-22T20:16:54","modified_gmt":"2014-04-22T20:16:54","slug":"homosexuals-and-carnival-a-complex-relationship","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/beyondcarnival\/chapter-5\/homosexuals-and-carnival-a-complex-relationship\/","title":{"rendered":"Homosexuals and Carnival: A Complex Relationship"},"content":{"rendered":"

The inversion and subversion<\/strong> of sexual and social roles characterizes Brazilian Carnival. This annual deviation from societal norms, however, projects a misleading image of\u00a0sexual openness, tolerance, and freedom in Brazil and obscures\u00a0deeper patterns of repression and homophobia. Nonetheless, gay Brazilians in the postwar period appropriated Carnival to express their notions of femininity and sexuality and ultimately gain further recognition and acceptance within Brazilian society.<\/p>\n

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An invite to the 1966 Baile das Bonecas<\/p><\/div>\n

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A 1964 gay carnival baile. Notice the almost exclusively male patronage.<\/p><\/div>\n

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A boneca and a police onlooker<\/p><\/div>\n

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\nThe Baile dos Enxutos,<\/strong> a\u00a0particularly notable Carnival Ball,\u00a0became a Carnival\u00a0staple in Rio by the early 1960s.<\/p>\n

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Baile dos Enxutos, 1954<\/p><\/div>\n

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Two attendees of the 1964 Baile dos Enxutos. Not everyone at the event cross-dressed.<\/p><\/div>\n

Ironically<\/strong> boasting a sash that reads, “Princess of Carnival,” Rock Hudson was an honored guest of Rio’s pre-lenten festivities in 1958. Click on the image below\u00a0to read contemporary news coverage of the event.<\/p>\n

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In<\/strong> 1964<\/strong>, the song “Cabeleira do Zez\u00e9,” written by Jo\u00e3o Roberto Kelly and performed by Jorge Goulart, became a hit tune. The lyrics allude to the homosexual presence during Carnival, and both gay and straight partygoers would shout “bicha<\/em>!” after the repeated line, “Do you think he is?”<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YpPFBjaAzF4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The inversion and subversion of sexual and social roles characterizes Brazilian Carnival. This annual deviation from societal norms, however, projects a misleading image of\u00a0sexual openness, tolerance, and freedom in Brazil and obscures\u00a0deeper patterns of repression and homophobia. Nonetheless, gay Brazilians in the postwar period appropriated Carnival to express their notions of femininity and sexuality and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"parent":56,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-78","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/beyondcarnival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/78","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=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/beyondcarnival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/78\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/beyondcarnival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/beyondcarnival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}