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LGBTQ Artists Are Leading Brazilian Pop Culture

Ana Clara Ribeiro — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 22:15:32 +0000

When drag queen Pabllo Vittar released her soon-to-become-hits singles “K.O.” and “Corpo Sensual” in 2017, she sparked mixed reactions in her natal Brazil. For pop music fans, her pop take on regional genres from the North and Northeast sides of Brazil was a breath of fresh air. For the gay, trans, and non-binary fans —

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Liniker Talks ‘September Mornings’ & Social Change For Trans Communities

Kiko Martinez — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 17:57:05 +0000

For transgender Brazilian musician and first-time actress Liniker, her new series September Mornings (Manhãs de Setembro), is more than just a TV show. It’s a part of who she is as a person and how she feels she can share herself with the world. Liniker, born in Araraquara, São Paulo, Brazil, stars as Cassandra, a trans-Brazilian woman

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Meet Linn da Quebrada, the “Gender Terrorist” Raising Her Voice for Brazil’s Queer Community of Color

Manuel Betancourt — Fri, 26 Oct 2018 15:44:38 +0000

With its title alone Bixa Travesty (translated as “Tranny Fag”) announces itself as a radical statement. The combination of two near-taboo words that continue to be contested within and leveraged against the LGBTQ community already alerts you that Brazilian directors Claudia Priscilla and Kiko Goifman are out to push boundaries. Their vehicle: the charismatic self-described

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How Justin Torres’ Novel About Living With an Abusive Father Got Made Into a Movie

Manuel Betancourt — Wed, 15 Aug 2018 21:23:16 +0000

When Justin Torres sat down to write what would become his first novel We The Animals, he knew he wanted to explore complicated, troubled masculinity. More specifically, the kind of machismo he’d grown up with as the son of an abusive Puerto Rican father. He didn’t quite write a memoir. But it’s hard not to

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From Psychedelic Love to a Gender Terrorist: This Film Series Explores Brazil’s LGBTQ Cinema

Manuel Betancourt — Thu, 19 Jul 2018 17:03:37 +0000

Admit it: LGBTQ mainstream fare in the US is not just paltry but rather bland. You’ve always had to look at the margins to find more prickly work tackling all the letters in that acronym. Or, if you wanted to be more adventurous, you had to look abroad. And while queer European indies still get

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