Fronteras del deseo. Homosexualidad, sociabilidad y afecto en la ciudad de Buenos Aires (1950-1983) *

Abstract This article reconstructs the connections between urban life and homosexual modes of socialization in Buenos Aires between 1950 – 1983. With the analysis of written sources, interviews, literary works and the mapping, we propose a description of this subculture. Among the objectives it highlighted: the relationship of homosexual subculture with other social groups such as workers or marginal people, modes of circulation and appropriation of space, the tactics of resistance to violence and emotional public networks launched. Processes that are contextualized in the structural changes...