The Significance of the ‘Fairy’ for the Cultural Archaeology of Same-Sex Male Desire in Spain, 1850-1930
Dados Bibliográficos
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ANO | 2004 |
TIPO | Artigo |
PERIÓDICO | Sexualities |
ISSN | 1363-4607 |
E-ISSN | 1461-7382 |
EDITORA | Sage Publications |
DOI | 10.1177/1363460704047060 |
CITAÇÕES | 1 |
ADICIONADO EM | 2025-08-18 |
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Resumo
This article takes one representation of male homo-sexuality in Spain - the 'fairy' (or marica as he was often termed at the time)1 - in order to assess its importance with respect to framing other expressions of homosexuality and masculinity in general in the years 1850-1930. The argument here, following the work of George Chauncey with respect to New York gay sub-cultures, is that the effeminate form of homosexuality, as discursive representation and actual lived experience, can be viewed by the historian as a kind of benchmark by which many other forms of homosexuality were considered in the major Spanish cities by the 1920s.