Hombr gays y bisexual mayor 30 años en Chile: 12,5% reporta tener VIH y 74,9% ha sido discrimado por su orientación sexual - La Tercera

gay años 30

La déda los 70 se racterizó por la agación social, to impliba ser LGBT+ (quen en e entonc solo se cía «ser gay»)

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CHANTAJE, CULPABILIDAD Y CEL TRATAMIENTOS: ASí ERA SER GAY O LBIANA EN EL HOLLYWOOD DORADO

For a brief but wild time the twenti and thirti, an openly gay culture thrived Chigo—a perd historians ll the “Pansy Craze.” Nightclubs and barets drew crowds of homosexuals, lbians, and voyrs—among them, soclogists who dutifully rerd the proceedgs. Recently redisvered rellectns om that era have land the cy the foreont of the small but popular field of gay historil rearch. * gay años 30 *

Le pedí a un pañero piso que me jara su moto; gí el gaymap que tengo en mi por s hace ya más tr años y salí a la lle a br un acermiento a mi primera experiencia gay. Drté un par ss os que funcnan a puerta cerrada —y que ds sabe lo que hay ntro— y me fui directo al Gayxample [divertido juego palabras entre el nombre l barr l "Eixample" y la palabra "gay". Y scubrí que en las diss gays los baños son un y las las más rápidas porque se mea dos en dos, o hicimos Pablo y fal nos fuimos la diste y yo dudaba si nos iríamos da uno a sa o si Pablo tenía algún otro plan, pero o íbamos enrollándonos por la lle taba servido y feliz y cualquier opción me parecía bastante bien.

For a brief time the late 1920s and early 1930s, siar scen unfold up and down the cy, as a relatively open gay culture thrived Chigo, wh gay barets and nightclubs proliferatg throughout the Near North and South sis. The historian Chad Heap has noted that the flowerg of gay life at that time vered much of the cy's ethnic landspe: "Ain Amerin drag entertaers performed for racially mixed dienc at some of the South Si's most famo ‘black and tan' [barets]. " The so-lled Bughoe Square ont of the Newberry Library was such a well-known pickup spot that the Chigo Gray Le Sightseeg Company clud on s Chigo-By-Night tour, advertisg the promise of "the unual, strange and different" "gay night life.

Wh s wildly relaxed attus, Chigo's Pansy Craze, as the brief phenomenon has e to be known, emerged om Prohibn jt as homosexualy first me to be regnized this untry as a distct sexual orientatn. "Massive wav of immigrants om Europe and the Amerin South were arrivg Amerin ci so that whe middle-class urban beme fascated wh explorg the new muni takg place their midst, whether immigrant, bohemian, black, or gay. Thanks part to Burgs's studi — which anticipated Aled Ksey at Indiana Universy by a — Chigo has been the foreont of rearch to gay history, once a ty field but now creasgly popular.

HOMBR GAYS Y BISEXUAL MAYOR 30 AñOS EN CHILE: 12,5% REPORTA TENER VIH Y 74,9% HA SIDO DISCRIMADO POR SU ORIENTACIóN SEXUAL

'" In s famo 1911 report on prostutn and other illic activi, The Social Evil Chigo, the Chigo Vice Commissn scribed a homosexual subculture of "at least 20, 000, " which had veloped s own nt and works. In his celebrated book Gay New York: Genr, Urban Culture, and the Makg of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940, Profsor Chncey showed that until the 1930s, workg-class men engaged sex wh other men whout feelg that they were abnormal.

But Chncey poss that after the voyristic slummg durg the Pansy Craze, the middle class nstcted a view of homosexuals as different om themselv, as "the other. Burgs llected a May 1934 letter wrten by a Sagaw, Michigan, man named Bill to a Chigo iend: "Y, I did hear of your gay parks and beach, " Bill wrote.

Homosexuals themselv ed the words "faggot, " "fairy, " and "queer, " or they sometim lled themselv "temperamental, " but the soclogists were not que sure what term to e.

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My own vtigatn to Chigo's gay history began a roundabout way, when I started rearchg a book on Allerton Garn, a botanil masterpiece on the Hawaiian island of Kai found by a Chigoan, Robert Allerton, and his lover, John Gregg Allerton.

That feelg creased when I vised the Chigo Historil Society and started listeng to dtap of old-timers scribg early gay life for the historian Gregory Sprague. Some terview subjects, both wh Sprague and wh Burgs's stunts, revealed a longg for marriage, fay, and social acceptance and their torment over beg homosexual. "The only failure gay life that I n figure, " he told the terviewer, "is fltg om one to another and never havg a thought of havg and fdg a mate that you n be happy wh.

Homosexualy began to be seen as a mental disease and s practners were equated wh psychopaths and child molters, all of them lled "sex morons" and "sex fiends. That didn't stop police om steppg up their surveillance of theatr and cisg spots, cludg a stretch of South State Street that had bee popular, and routely arrtg gays seekg nsensual sex.

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Scrollg through rolls and rolls of microfilmed archiv of entertament newspapers, such as Variety, he noticed the growg number of clubs Tim Square wh gay performers, often scribed as "pansi.

Bee many gays and lbians died alone durg perds when homosexualy was vilified, their personal papers were not saved, or their fai stroyed embarrassg documents. There has been tremendo excement among gay historians as they unver and llect this material, and the thrill of disvery is part of the attractn of the field. By the time the Pansy Craze was over, "most people began thkg of themselv as eher hetero- or homosexual, while a century ago people did not thk of themselv or anize their emotnal liv through those tegori, " says the historian Chad Heap.

La sociedad pruponía que la farándula se regía por reglas disttas al rto la población y o cluía un libertaje sexual que a menudo no distguía géneros y que tampo juzgaba a gays, lbianas o bisexual.

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