Pondering the paradise of paradox: LGBTI+ culture in Brazil today -- A decade of decadence: the emergence of the largest gay pride parade on the planet (1997 -- 2006) -- Winter carnaval fora de epoca?: progression and retrogression in Sao Paulo's LGBT pride parade (2007 -- 2011) -- WhatsZapping the LGBT pride parade of Sao Paulo: fake news and the (ab)uses of social media platforms in digital Brazil (2012- 2020) -- Looking them up (and down): what (homo)sexuality means in Brazilian reference works -- Translating trans in Brazilian culture -- Tracing the trenches of the travesti travesty: trans photography and artivism in Brazil -- (For)getting far away from home: cinematic representations of 21st-century (LBG)trans Brazil -- What's queer got to do with it? Queernormativity and heteroBrasilidade in Brazil's queermuseu -- Epilogue: the (r)evolving closet door in LGBT Brazil.
Summary:
"This book provides readers with a study of the characteristics that make life unique for sexual minorities in Brazil while also viewing Brazil in relation to global LGBT sociopolitical movements, as well as providing the first comprehensive discourse analysis of the dynamics and features of the largest LGBT Pride parade in the world"-- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.