La represión cultural en la última dictadura cívico-militar:

identidad(es) en peligro

Abstract

This article analyzes the cultural repression carried out by the last military dictatorship, particularly on those who nowadays could be considered as part of the LGBTQIA+ community. The “National Reorganization Process” should be understood as a genocidal social practice, in its reorganizational aspect. In an excessive attempt to reconfigure the existing social relations, a violent and resolute process was carried out with the aim of annihilating all those relationships considered to embody values that “should” be banished. It was in this way, through the construction of a negative otherness, that the figure of the “subversive delinquent” was created in the public imagination, and included under this figure were all those who raised the flags of equality, autonomy and solidarity. In this context, under the slogan of “Western Christian Civilization”, those who, away from the “norm”, wanted to freely choose their sexual orientation or sexual identity were also affected. So far, there has not been an official recognition of the sufferings to which approximately 400 gay, lesbian and trans women were exposed. This article seeks to be a contribution in this regard, and a reaffirmation of those practices that embodied our missing colleagues.