A History of the LGBT Movement in Maputo
Based on ethnographic and archival research, this article presents a genealogy of the Mozambican LGBT movement from its origin to the present. Thus, it addresses the first homosexual parties; the movement’s first newspaper; the movement’s institutionalization via the organization known as “LAMBDA”;...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2021 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA) |
| Repositorio: | Afro-Ásia (Online) |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.periodicos.ufba.br:article/36387 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://periodicos.ufba.br/index.php/afroasia/article/view/36387 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Mozambique Activism LGBT Homosexuality Moçambique Ativismo |
| Sumario: | Based on ethnographic and archival research, this article presents a genealogy of the Mozambican LGBT movement from its origin to the present. Thus, it addresses the first homosexual parties; the movement’s first newspaper; the movement’s institutionalization via the organization known as “LAMBDA”; and the latter’s relationship to the Mozambican state. Two arguments are presented here: first, responding to debates about discourse on the exogeneity of homosexuality in Africa, I argue that the history of the local LGBT movement is one of the reasons that the predominating discourse in Mozambique identifies “homosexuality” with foreigners, with whites and with urban settings . Second, the article takes issue with Africanists that emphasize homophobia on the continent, showing that there is a certain ambiguity in the relationship between the Mozambican state and the local LGBT movement. |
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