Contra el agandalle de la tira. El surgimiento del Movimiento de Liberación Homosexual y la resistencia a la razias policiacas en la ciudad de México, 1978-1984.

Abstract

This paper studies the resistance to police repression during the first years of the Homosexual Liberation Movement in Mexico City. With newspapers as a main historical source, it analyzes how the Movement organized to confront recurrent police raids, as well as individual resistance strategies implemented to cope with the authorities. The paper pretends to put James C. Scott’s concepts of resistance and the weapons of the weak to test. The results of this exercise invite us to thing of the Homosexual Liberation Movement as a response to a peak in police violence and repression, caused by a growing urbanization and the emergence of specifically homosexual markets and night-life sociability spaces.