Un teatro a la vanguardia: El drama homosexual en Argentina

• Demaría, Gonzalo ^[1]
  1. [1] Teatro Nacional Cervantes
• Localización: Revista Teatro, ISSN-e 0719-6490, ISSN 0719-6482, Nº. 15, 2026 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Agosto)
• Idioma: español
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  • A theater at the forefront: Homosexual drama in Argentina
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  • In 1914, Argentine theater moved to the international forefront with the premiere in Buenos Aires of Los invertidos by José González Castillo (1885–1937), a native of Rosario. As we shall see, this was not an isolated work but part of a movement that deserves recognition for its progressive nature. Of course, the homosexual figure had already appeared in the Greek comedies of Aristophanes twenty-five centuries earlier, yet always in minor, caricatured roles—as a target of mockery and jokes. A mature treatment of the subject was a true rarity and was a long time coming