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TOP 7 BT GAY BARS & CLUBS PORTUGAL

Although there are no “official” signated gay beach, there are a few nudist beach Portugal that are particularly popular wh the whole of the LGBT+ muny, such as Praia do Me (Simbra) and Praia da Bela Vista (between Costa da Capari and Fonte da Telha). Several European natns require transgenr people to unrgo medil procr such as surgery and sterilizatn, be diagnosed wh a mental disorr, and get divorced if married to have their sired genr legally regnized by law mak Portugal only the sixth European natn to allow a change of genr whout medil or state terventn, acrdg to ILGA-Europe, a work of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and tersex (LGBTI) follows Malta, Norway, Denmark, Ireland and who are transgenr do not intify wh the genr they were born as, while tersex people have ambiguo genalia that are not nsired typilly male or female.

1This article foc on the way which the specific character of the Portugue social formatn has termed and manifted self the soc-genis of the history of the lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr associatn movement (LGBT) over the past three s. Ined, the srce stanc of receptivens to the gay and lbian movement me om a number of tellectuals and younger-generatn stunts (not, however, om opposn veterans, pecially those lked to the Communist Party), who had wnsed directly while livg exile abroad.

Siarly, the participatn polil opposn activi of dividuals, some of whom public figur, who were openly out or assumed to be gay or lbian (and there were such persons) no way meant that the generilly anti-fascist, anti-lonialist, and anti-palist ( markedly Marxist sectors) agenda was sufficiently open to adm, not even wh the nf of their “Cultural Qutn, ” any fanciful notn of gay and lbian emancipatn. From the pot of view of associatns (rather than the cultural viewpot, sce the homophile argument was ed Antón Botto’s fence), this phase was pletely unknown Portugal, and associatns only emerged this untry at a time when the gay and lbian movement had already experienced a long evolutnary procs North-Amerin and Northern-European untri, and was th void of the self-reflective dimensn had acquired those untri.

In Spa, there were embryonic, clanste gay associatns durg the last years of the dictatorship, embedd the anti-Fran opposn and precipated by a heighteng of reprsn as a nsequence of the Law of Danger and Social Rehabilatn passed 1970. In addn, the Spanish gay and lbian movement was closely associated to the renewal and cultural effervcence of the polil, tonomy-seekg movements Catalonia, as also happened, although to a lser extent, the Basque Country.

8The first exprsns of an embryonic gay and lbian movement me as a rult of iativ taken by a small number of dividuals, who cidly intified wh left-wg sectors, though dissociated om party and tra unn anizatns, where gay and lbian inti and mands found no receptivens, and th no opportuny for exprsn. This, however, lays bare a further, surmountable problem for the assiatn of gay and lbian emancipatn, which is the mensurable nature of revolutnary disurse and the same-sex erotic lexin general, not simply the leather or other type (Casis, 2003b).

Bis, and addn to the subterranean nnectn wh the latter, would-be revolutnary moral thory also end up turng the prevailg heterosexism and homophobia (cril terms which did not exist at the time, and hence were untelligible) to a virtue, th reproducg and rercg them. This was all the more so as the “Homosexual Qutn” (wh s plorable echo of the “Jewish Qutn”) was treated merely as a matter for legal regulatn, and pletely diluted the generic and non-specific grantg of more or fewer rights, eedoms and guarante to cizens general, irrpective of their sexual orientatn – a pletely unknown term at the time but which, markg an irrcible specificy, is still today a source of sndal to all those who, om one end of the polil spectm to the other, regard mands for rights as lls for abive privileg.

Intertgly enough, or perhaps not, is this latter ntext that Portugal first saw bat on the medilisatn of homosexualy and viance, on medice’s and psychiatry’s social ntrol role, as well as on the nttg of prevailg medil paradigms. This was a first challenge to the scientific culture of the Portugue left-wg spher, still unr the sway of posivist republinism and sharg every existg stereotyped reprentatn of same-sex relatns, not only wh the rt of the polil spectm and society at large, but also wh the Universy, which, at a time much precedg the emergence of genr, lbian, gay and queer studi on the Portugue amic landspe, was almost pletely imperv to the airg of the matters.

Siarly, is a well-known fact that Portugue femism was unwillg to tegrate lbians s emancipatory project ( mt be strsed that “lbian” was perceived as an sult at a time when women saw themselv as “female homosexuals” and men as “male homosexuals”), as is always reerated by lbians and as femists fally admted. 12Th, an absolutely cisive fact durg this perd was that gays and lbians were ert prey and silent victims of social and polil, cultural, media and scientific reprentatns; the object rather than the subjects of disurse, as Michel Fouult brilliantly monstrated (1977). The sole exceptn of the time was Guilherme Melo, whose se was wily publicized, and is th worthy of note, not jt bee nobody else had “e out, ” but bee he was the first to do so the name of a llective body – “gays” – even though such a llective had been virtually visible until then.

Such was the se of the Homosexual Movement for Revolutnary Actn (MHAR), created as early as May 1974, which did not survive the public reactn of General Galvão Melo, a member of the Milary Junta for Natnal Salvatn, who soon beme the mouthpiece wh the Junta of right-wg reactn to the revolutn.