Inhabiting Madrid’s Dissidence: Sexual Consumption, Transgression, and Identity in the 1980s
Abstract
Madrid was witness and protagonist of great social, economic, and cultural transformations because of the democratic transition in Spain. This panorama of opening and opportunity was embraced by all those subjects who were trying to escape from marginality and build their own identities and places within the jungle that is the urban world. This text shows the sexual geographies that emerge from hemerographic sources of the time such as the Guía del Ocio, Madrid gai and La Luna de Madrid, through the elaboration of maps, which reveal to a greater and lesser degree the visibilization of locals and practices of sex-genre dissidence. In addition, the representations of the places and practices of dissidence in these media are also analyzed with the aim of attending to the construction of meanings around these subjects and the conflicts that came along with this process. In short, this article addresses the creation of their own places by dissident subjects, the circulation of information about these enclaves and their practices, and the deployment of new behaviors and identities in the capital in the first half of the 1980s.
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