¿Cómo entender los significados de las prácticas sexuales maricas en Lima, Perú entre la década de los cincuenta y los setenta, desde una perspectiva interseccional? Esta tesis busca articular una primera narrativa histórica de las experiencias de los maricones en Lima entre las décadas de 1950 y 1970. Partiendo de seis entrevistas orales, ocho novelas, dos canciones, un corto, un blog y diez ediciones de una guía de viaje, que contribuyen a debates sobre las tensiones entre la identidad y los comportamientos sexuales, la intersección de raza y clase en procesos identitarios, y el espacio urbano. Las existencias maricas entre los cincuenta y los setenta pueden ser entendidas como comportamientos de inversión de género que planteaban a los maricones como las parejas femeninas y complementarias de «hombres» o «machos». Cualquier hombre podía participar en relaciones homosexuales, desde casi cualquier lugar, pero el significado que le atribuían (o no) a estos comportamientos dependía de su identidad de raza, clase y género. Quienes se comportaban femeninamente podían adquirir una identidad de maricones, mientras que sus parejas masculinas podían permanecer como «hombres».
The Ball of La Laguna was an infamous cross-dressing ball that ended in a police raid, media scandal, and public uproar on the night of January 31, 1959, in Lima, Peru. Hundreds of maricón (queer) couples attended the ball sporting masculine and feminine attire — unaware of the moral panic that would soon unfold across the city. How did class, race, and gender inequalities shape La Laguna? How did they shape heteronormative reactions to the ball? How can we understand the meanings of (homo)sexuality and cross-dressing at the ball? This essay answers these questions by conducting a content analysis of five newspapers, two magazines, a cartoon, an invitation to the ball, a video advertisement, and three oral history interviews. The Ball of La Laguna reveals that the class, race, and gender inequalities that have structured Peruvian society since colonial times also structured maricón social worlds and the policing of their communities. All attendees experienced homophobic treatment in the aftermath of the ball, but Indigeneity, femininity, and a lower-class status compounded these inequalities. La Laguna enables us to describe maricón social worlds in mid-twentieth-century Lima from an intersectional class, race, and gender perspective, which contributes to the growing literature on cross-dressing practices in twentieth-century Latin America and, more broadly, to the hemispheric turn in queer studies.
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