A microscopic analysis of the social cosmos: the alleged participation of the transvestite Consuelo Lamarca in the armed struggle against the Brazilian civil-military dictatorship

Through the methodological framework of microhistory, this article seeks, through an “exceptional normal” case, to demonstrate the intersections between politics and morals in the context of the Brazilian civil-military dictatorship. Through the alleged implication of the transvestite Consuelo Lamarca as a participant in an armed action carried out by the Guanabara Communist Dissidence, light is shed, both from the investigations and repressive raids carried out by the dictatorship’s police apparatus, as well as from the narrative construction of the media groups, about the articulation between gender oppression - cis and trans - and the repression of political groups that aimed to overthrow the dictatorship and carry out the Brazilian revolution.

Keywords:
Dictatorship; Gender; Travestite; Armed struggle; Repression