Batallas discursivas en torno a la “homosexualidad” en Argentina (1957-1969)

Abstract

The article analyzes a series of discourses, homophobic and homophile, published in Argentina before the emergency of the movements in defense of sexual minorities, with the aim to emphasize the heterogeneous manners in which they conceptualize and value “homosexuality”. It deals with (pseudo)scientific, journalistic and literary texts published between 1957 and 1969, most of them not well-known and scarcely mentioned in the historiography on “homosexuality” in the country, though they allow to highlight a discursive field affected by a number of contradictions. Thus, the homophobic texts differ in the way in which they conceive and condemn the “sexual deviation”. Similarly, the homophile texts also present gradations in its defense. Both deserve to be reconsidered as part of a conceptual dispute which echoes survive to the present day.