Abstract

KRESIC, Agustina  and  RESTOVICH, Desiree. Lesbian Activism in the LGBT Movement in Rosario (Argentina, 1987-1999). An Approach from Oral History and the Affective Turn. Secuencia [online]. 2025, n.121, e2329.  Epub Mar 31, 2025. ISSN 2395-8464.  https://doi.org/10.18234/secuencia.v0i121.2319.

In this work we propose to reflect on lesbian participation in the LGBT movement of Rosario (Argentina), in recent history. We intend to contribute to the perspective that history does not have a center and that it is possible to contrast the most official visions based on research from new or other voices, thanks to oral history. In dialogue with the affective turn, the objective of this article is to explain the invisibilization and subordination of lesbians within the LGBT movement. The answers to the question about the subordination of lesbian identity can be based on the weight of the heterocispatriarchal structures of domination and the order of priorities of the claims of the different identities within the group, while the specifically lesbian demands were blurred before different current emergencies, such as the HIV crisis -which mostly affected gay men- and institutional violence towards transvestite-trans identities. Our underlying aspiration is to contribute to the development of a lesbian history with local-regional anchoring, which recognizes the militant agency of sexual dissidence and questions the centrality that was historically given to Buenos Aires.

Keywords : LGBT movement; lesbian women; Rosario (Argentina); oral history; affective turn.

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