Los homosexuales en Barcelona bajo el franquismo. Prostitución, clase social y visibilidad entre 1956 y 1980

Huard, Geoffroy

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“…This gave rise to slums or Chinatowns—population nuclei where people lived in overcrowded conditions—with precarious economic means and with the need to seek daily sustenance. The only recourse for men and women in these places who intended to improve their economic condition was practicing prostitution (Porras Gallo, 2002 ; Huard, 2016 ).…”

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“…The Law on Vagrants and Thugs was selectively applied with class criteria since individuals in homosexual relationships belonging to powerful families were excluded from it. Therefore, a very high number of those judged by the courts of the time for homosexuality belonged to the most disadvantaged social groups; it was exceptional for someone belonging to the upper social class to be sentenced to prison for homosexuality (Herrero-Brasas, 2001 ; Huard, 2016 ; Díaz, 2019 ). The Law on Vagrants and Thugs was repealed on 4 August 1970 and replaced by the Law on Dangerousness and Social Rehabilitation, which remained in force until 26 December 1978.…”

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Gender diversity and syphilis: something's going on?

de Dios-Aguado,

Cunha-Oliveira,

Cotto-Andino

et al. 2023

Front. Sociol.

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IntroductionThis study aims to analyze the influence of syphilis among people with sexual and gender diversity, different from the binary dimension.Materials and methodsA systematic review was conducted as a method to address the objective of the study, based on the Dialectical Structural Model of Care (DSM), to obtain the phenomenon from the perspective of cultural history.ResultsIn this review the analysis of 129 documents, of which 22 texts were used. The construction of sex and gender in Western civilization is based on the Judeo-Christian tradition, which permitted many people throughout history to be persecuted and mistreated for living a lifestyle different from that dictated by religious and traditional canons. Therefore, throughout history, gender-diverse people, sexual minorities, and prostitutes have suffered segregation, mockery, aggression, and health problems, including syphilis.ConclusionsDespite having a treatment and cure, syphilis has stood the test of time and has remained a secret pathology that is obscure and difficult to detect disease, which is still very much present in people of all social classes. It is necessary to review history to understand the reasons why syphilis is still prevalent in different societies today.

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Gender diversity and syphilis: something's going on?

de Dios-Aguado,

Cunha-Oliveira,

Cotto-Andino

et al. 2023

Front. Sociol.

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“…Foucault señalaba como, atribuyendo a la represión sexual un origen puramente económico, se perdía de vista toda una serie de refuerzos e intensificaciones» que hicieron aparecer la «discordan-12. Huard, 2014, p. 104;Huard, 2016;Huard, 2018. En el mismo sentido se ha pronunciado Javier Ugarte, «los homosexuales que tenían dinero o estaban bien relacionados podían vivir tranquilamente» siempre que tuviesen una mínima discreción. Ugarte, 2008, p. 14.…”

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Afeminados de vida ociosa: Sexualidad, género y clase social durante el franquismo

Dı́az

2021

Hist. contemp.

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Hasta los años treinta del pasado siglo XX, la posición de clase fue un elemento que diluía la percepción de ciertos comportamientos refinados o afeminados como indicios de homosexualidad, asociándolos con modales aristocráticos. Durante el franquismo, sin embargo, esta dinámica sufrirá cambios significativos. Progresivamente, se constituyó un cuerpo homosexual esencializado, que estuvo afectado, en menor medida, por otras variables históricas ajenas a la sexualidad a la hora de juzgar qué se entendía por "inversión". Lo que este artículo trata de analizar, empleando documentación judicial, es cómo las variables de sexualidad, clase y género afectaron a la definición de la homosexualidad en aquellos procesos en los que los inculpados pertenecían a las clases acomodadas.

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“…Huard (2016) documents gay life and male prostitution in Barcelona's Raval -precisely the district portrayed in this poem-through files from court archives between 1956 and 1980, related to cases under the Ley de Vagos y Maleantes (1956) and the Ley de Peligrosidad y RehabilitaciónSocial (1970). In this article the richness of this gay underworld is portrayed, but at the same time the constant presence of the legal apparatus's gaze strongly suggests that for many homosexuals, like Blai Bonet, the lived experience of gay sexuality was likely dominated by fear and anxiety.…”

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Homosexual Desire in the Poetry of Blai Bonet

Fernàndez

2021

Neophilologus

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This article examines the interplay between homosexual desire and anxiety in the poetry of Blai Bonet, one of the most important, complex, and problematic figures in modern Catalan literature. Bonet is usually presented as a homosexual author, but the way his poetry articulates same-sex desire is far from straightforward. Critics have highlighted the sensuality and eroticism of his poetry, as well as the importance of mysticism and Catholic imagery. However, a specific analysis of homosexual desire in Bonet’s poetry has never been undertaken. Through a psychoanalytically-oriented reading of various poems by Bonet, this essay traces the movement and the effect of anxiety in a textual corpus characterised by a tension between a body mortified by pain, illness, and guilt, and an ecstatic body that seeks satisfaction in the social underworld, in voyeurism and fantasy, and in textual play. Blai Bonet’s literary project promotes a textual revolution through the dissolution of genres and the proliferation of voices: he defines himself as “a poet without intimacy” whose work performs a radical dispersal of the subject, yet paradoxically his own name is constantly enunciated in the poems, while his body remains silent, concealed behind ellipses or in elusive references to (gay) sex. This article argues that following the trace of anxiety in Bonet’s poetry allows us to move towards the locus where he confronts the complexities of his desire: through an act of sublimation that restates the sexual in creative life, Bonet turns anxiety into comedy, guilt into a sense of humour, and textual experimentation into a form of ascesis.

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Los homosexuales en Barcelona bajo el franquismo. Prostitución, clase social y visibilidad entre 1956 y 1980

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Gender diversity and syphilis: something's going on?

Gender diversity and syphilis: something's going on?

Afeminados de vida ociosa: Sexualidad, género y clase social durante el franquismo

Homosexual Desire in the Poetry of Blai Bonet

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