ABSTRACT

This article traces the constant struggle for control over representation between gay people and Francoist state agents. Gay narrations of self did not always involve a negation of Catholic dogma, which was often reinterpreted and incorporated into articulate defenses of homoeroticism. Moreover, transnational networks built on the basis of an insider critique of the Catholic hierarchy's stance on same-sex desires preceded the formation of gay liberation fronts by decades. These networks connected Spanish and Latin American queer communities by virtue of the former's reliance on the latter's access to the publishing and entertainment industries, given the stringent censorship imposed by the Franco regime in Spain. This article focuses on judicial transcripts, photographs, personal correspondence and literary and oral sources to explore how shifting cultural ideals and lived experiences informed each other. Thus, I argue that the discrepancy between the state-enforced view of homosexuality as a set of purely physical (“putrefied”) practices leading males to cave to their lowest predatory instincts and people's erotic and affective lived experiences reveals how queer communities were able to articulate dissident discourses at the interstices of homophobic institutions.

摘要

这篇文章追溯了同性恋者和佛朗哥主义国家代理人之间为控制代表权而进行的持续斗争。同性恋对自我的叙述并不总是涉及对天主教教条的否定，天主教教条经常被重新解释并纳入对同性恋的明确辩护中。此外，建立在对天主教等级制度对同性欲望立场的内部批评基础上的跨国网络早于同性恋解放阵线的形成几十年。鉴于西班牙佛朗哥政权实行严格的审查制度，这些网络将西班牙和拉丁美洲的酷儿社区联系在一起，因为前者依赖后者进入出版和娱乐行业。本文重点介绍司法笔录、照片、个人通信以及文学和口头资源，以探索不断变化的文化理想和生活经历如何相互影响。因此，我认为，国家强制将同性恋视为一系列导致男性屈服于最低的掠夺本能的纯身体（“腐烂”）行为与人们的色情和情感生活经历之间的差异揭示了酷儿社区如何能够在仇视同性恋的机构的空隙中阐明持不同政见者的话语。