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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 Dare to Struggle, Dare to Win (1992) -- 2 He Loved to Read (1946–1964) -- 3 Medical School (1965–1967) -- 4 The O. (1967–1968) -- 5 Ângelo (1968) -- 6 Underground (1969) -- 7 Unity and Disunity (1969) -- 8 To the Countryside! (1970) -- 9 40 + 70 = 110 (1970–1971) -- 10 Falling Apart (1971) -- 11 Cláudio (1972–1974) -- 12 Red Carnations (1974–1975) -- 13 Marginalia (1976–1981) -- 14 Returning to Rio (1981–1982) -- 15 Words, Words, Words (1983–1985) -- 16 The Politics of Pleasure (1986–1988) -- 17 Forty Seconds (1989–1992) -- EPILOGUE Remnants -- CHRONOLOGY -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

SETH GARFIELD: In Search of the Amazon: Brazil, the United States andthe Nature of a Region. Durham: Duke University Press, 2013.

For many foreign observers, from Buenos Aires to San Francisco and Paris, Brazil is a tropical paradise where uninhibited and licentious Brazilian homosexuals are free to express sensuality, sexuality, or camp. Lenten Mardi Gras festivities have come to represent an alleged cultural and social toleration for homosexuality and bisexuality in that country Apparent permissiveness during Carnival, so the stereotype goes, symbolizes a sexual and social regime that unabashedly accepts fluid sexual identity, including male-to-male sexuality.