[In editing] A Trail of Transformismo and Travestism as a gay cultural practice in the city of Rio de Janeiro

Abstract

The main objective of this work was to consider the relations and contradictions of transformism and transvestism in the city os Rio de Janeiro as cultural movements that materialized in the corporeality of the social subjetcs involved in the process, in order to map them. Transformism and transvestism are considered here as cultural moviments of an era, whose development reverberates today, supporting new ways os existing within the LGBTQIA+ universe, sucha as drag queens. The experiences and life experiences of the social subjects involved in the issue were importante here, from the perspective of the ecology of knowledge, considered as subjects os knowledge. Shedding light on transformim anda tansvestism as cultural movements of na era reveals their current power, as well as avoiding the erasure os the social subjetcs involved in this process, such as transvestites.