{"id":80,"date":"2014-04-22T20:17:11","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T20:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/beyondcarnival\/?page_id=80"},"modified":"2014-04-22T20:17:11","modified_gmt":"2014-04-22T20:17:11","slug":"expanding-the-sphere-of-gender-transgression","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/beyondcarnival\/chapter-5\/expanding-the-sphere-of-gender-transgression\/","title":{"rendered":"Expanding the Sphere of Gender Transgression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Although\u00a0cross-dressing<\/strong> has existed in Brazil since colonial times, the late 1950s marked a dramatic increase in transvestitism in Brazil&#8217;s urban centers. While female impersonators performed in theater acts in the Teatro de Revista, gay clubs offered the initial stage for entire drag acts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rog\u00e9ria<\/strong> (pictured below) became an international drag star after beginning her career in Rio&#8217;s drag scene. <a title=\"Rog\u00e9ria Images\" href=\"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/beyondcarnival\/rogeria-images\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click here for more pictures of Rog\u00e9ria<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"font-size: 1rem;line-height: 1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.estrelarogeria.com\/fotos\/02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"330\" height=\"443\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>On the streets<\/strong>, more men\u00a0dressed as women to work as prostitutes. The emergence of a strong\u00a0<em>travesti\u00a0<\/em>street presence, coupled with the increasing popularity of drag shows,\u00a0led to a\u00a0popular conflation of homosexuality and transvestitism.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_291\" style=\"width: 358px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/beyondcarnival\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2014\/04\/transvestite.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-291\" class=\"size-full wp-image-291\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/beyondcarnival\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2014\/04\/transvestite.jpg\" alt=\"A transvestite on the streets of Rio\" width=\"348\" height=\"504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/beyondcarnival\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2014\/04\/transvestite.jpg 348w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/beyondcarnival\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2014\/04\/transvestite-207x300.jpg 207w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 348px) 100vw, 348px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-291\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A transvestite on the streets of Rio<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although\u00a0cross-dressing has existed in Brazil since colonial times, the late 1950s marked a dramatic increase in transvestitism in Brazil&#8217;s urban centers. While female impersonators performed in theater acts in the Teatro de Revista, gay clubs offered the initial stage for entire drag acts. Rog\u00e9ria (pictured below) became an international drag star after beginning her career [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"parent":56,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-80","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/beyondcarnival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/80","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=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/beyondcarnival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/80\/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=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}