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- Title
No Ceará é assim: gênero, dissidência e tradição na (re) invenção da feminilidade em concursos de beleza gay.
- Authors
Leitão Mesquita, Marina
- Abstract
This paper addresses aspects of the history of gender and sexuality nonconformity in Northeast Brazil in order to understand how transgender people reconstruct meanings of femininity, masculinity, and tradition. The authors investigate the gay beauty pageant circuit in the northeastern state of Ceará, starting from its contemporary context and retracing it through the memories of those who starred in the first such pageants in the 1950s. The methodologies used for this study include ethnography, oral history, and archival evidence from printed newspapers and trans producers’ and artists’ personal collections. Ultimately, it is found that gay beauty pageants perpetuate a Ceará imaginary focused on gender and sexuality nonconformity that intersects with sectors of the beauty industry. In addition, these events represent spaces of militancy and sources of visibility and affirmation of transsexuality. On the other hand, we observe the pursuit of a beauty standard, referred to as “spectacular femininity,” that reinforces hegemonic notions of beauty and fosters disputes for legitimacy. Finally, we understand the gradual construction of an imaginary about Ceará and other regions of the country, particularly the Northeast.
- Subjects
FORTALEZA (Brazil); CEARA (Brazil : State); GENDER nonconformity; TRANSGENDER people; BEAUTY contests; FEMININITY; TRANSSEXUALISM; MASCULINITY; TRANSPERSONAL psychology
- Publication
Estudos Ibero-Americanos, 2021, Vol 47, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0101-4064
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.15448/1980-864X.2021.1.38152