Nuestro Mundo
| Successor | Frente de Liberación Homosexual |
|---|---|
| Formation | November 1967 |
| Founder | Héctor Anabitarte |
| Founded at | Buenos Aires, Argentina |
Nuestro Mundo (literally "Our World," also Grupo Nuestro Mundo meaning "Our World Group"[1]) was a gay rights organization founded by Héctor Anabitarte in Buenos Aires, Argentina in late 1967.[1][2][3] In 1971, it joined with several similar organizations to form the Frente de Liberación Homosexual.[4][5] Nuestro Mundo has often been cited as the first LGBT rights organization in Latin America.[4][5] However, recent historical research has documented the earlier existence of Maricas Unidas Argentinas (MUA), a small clandestine mutual aid network active in Buenos Aires around the late 1940s and 1950s, which some scholars regard as a possible precursor to later LGBTQ organizing in Argentina.[6]
Formation
Nuestro Mundo was founded by Héctor Anabitarte, a trade unionist. He and the other leaders of the group were expelled from the Communist Party of Argentina for being homosexuals.[7][8]
When the group was formed in November 1967, Argentina was ruled by the Argentine Revolution a military dictatorship[5] that repressed LGBT people.[9] Nuestro Mundo largely focused on bringing awareness to the oppression of Argentina's LGBT community and ending police brutality against homosexuals rather than engaging in political activity.[3][10] Anabitarte described the group's demands as "more reformist than revolutionary."[7]
Frente de Liberación Homosexual
In August 1971, Nuestro Mundo merged with several other activist groups to form the Frente de Liberación Homosexual ("Homosexual Liberation Front"), also known as the FLH.[7][10] Other groups which joined the FLH included Safo, Eros, and Bandera Negra.[7] This new group was more politically active than those that preceded it, including Nuestro Mundo itself.[3] The FLH eventually dissolved as a result of the 1976 Argentine coup d'état.[10]
References
- ^ a b Shaffer, Andrew (2012-12-14). "The Lavender Tide: LGBTQ Activism in Neoliberal Argentina". USFCA Scholarship Repository. University of San Francisco: 23.
- ^ Justo, Marcelo; Bazán, Osvaldo (July 22, 2004). "Argentina: una historia gay". BBC Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved February 7, 2021.
- ^ a b c Schulenberg, Shawn Richard (2010). From International Idea to Domestic Policy: Explaining the Emergence of Same-Sex Partnership Recognition in Argentina and Brazil (Thesis). UC Riverside.
- ^ a b Herrera, Catalina. "ARGENTINA: PIONERA DEL MOVIMIENTO HOMOSEXUAL EN AMERICA LATINA" [ARGENTINA: PIONEER OF THE HOMOSEXUAL MOVEMENT IN LATIN AMERICA]. OpusGay (in Spanish). Archived from the original on February 16, 2009. Retrieved February 7, 2021.
- ^ a b c Brown, Stephen (2002). ""Con discriminación y represión no hay democracia": The Lesbian Gay Movement in Argentina". Latin American Perspectives. 29 (2): 119–138. doi:10.1177/0094582X0202900207. ISSN 0094-582X. JSTOR 3185130. S2CID 9046161.
- ^ Queiroz, Juan (2023). "Maricas Unidas Argentinas (MUA)". El lugar sin límites. Revista de Estudios y Políticas de Género (in Spanish). 5 (3). Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero. Retrieved 4 January 2026.
- ^ a b c d Encarnación, Omar (2016). Out in the Periphery: Latin America's Gay Rights Revolution. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780190469726.
The group was shunned by all left-wing organizations, and its leaders, including Anabitarte, were expelled from the Communist Party. This action was in line with the treatment of gay leaders by left-wing organizations across Latin American countries...
- ^ Ruvalcaba, Héctor Domínguez (2016-11-15). Translating the Queer: Body Politics and Transnational Conversations. Zed Books Ltd. ISBN 978-1-78360-295-7.
- ^ Encarnación, Omar G. (2012–2013). "International Influence, Domestic Activism, and Gay Rights in Argentina". Political Science Quarterly. 128 (4): 687–716. doi:10.1002/polq.12138. ISSN 0032-3195.
- ^ a b c Ben, Pablo; Insausti, Santiago Joaquin (2017-04-27). "Dictatorial Rule and Sexual Politics in Argentina: The Case of the Frente de Liberación Homosexual, 1967–1976". Hispanic American Historical Review. 97 (2): 297–325. doi:10.1215/00182168-3824077. hdl:11336/72743. ISSN 0018-2168. S2CID 85560297.