Jorge Gumier Maier and Marcelo Pombo: gay activists in the Buenos Aires post-dictatorship art scene

Abstract

This article is a contribution to the study of democratic transition in the Argentinean intellectual field. In dialog with existing literature on the period, we look at the transformations brought by the emergence of political actors connected to the sexual liberation movement. Our focus is on gay activists whose proposals break with dominant concepts in the local visual arts scene. In the trajectories of artists Jorge Gumier Maier and Marcelo Pombo we highlight the continuity between sexual dissidence and their critique of legitimate culture.

democratic transition; intellectual field; homosexual activism; visual arts; Buenos Aires