This work is about the construction of socialization spaces for men which have love and sex with other men in Mexico City, between the 40s and 70s. In opposite to the lineal and reductionist vision of the history of this construction, that tends to recognize in the present and in the development of gay trading a sign of liberation in rupture with the recent past, made of social repression and invisibility. Based on memories, chronicles, literary creations and interviews with gay activists, the article observes a basting between urban space and historic time and the lives of the various generations of 'homosexuals' that have composed the Mexican capital's 'gay ghetto'. The development of specialized homosocialization spaces is bound with the loss and the search (which is in continual renovation, even nowadays) of social contiguity, that is progressively broken by the multiplication and individualization of forms of expressing sexuality, and by cultural and urban practices, according to ages, social classes, socio-economical possibilities and aspirations, and neighborhoods.