The Closet, the Terror, the Archive: Confession and Testimony in LGBT Memories of Argentine State Terrorism

This essay aims to make a semiotic contribution to the study of how LGBT people entered the post-dictatorship memory regime, a topic still neglected in the study of the transition to democracy in the Southern Cone. By mixing different discursive practices stemming both from LGBT transnational political practices (e.g. coming out as militant practice) and from post-conflict and transitional cultures (e.g. oral interviews with witnesses and the public display of past atrocities), how do LGBT people construct the memory of state terrorism, join the human rights movement and consequently reposition their subjectivities