Nuestro Mundo
{{Infobox organization
| successor = Frente de Liberación Homosexual
| formation = {{start date and age|1967}}
| founder = Héctor Anabitarte
| founding_location = Buenos Aires, Argentina
}}
{{Short description|First gay rights organization in Latin America}}
Nuestro Mundo (literally "Our World," also Grupo Nuestro Mundo meaning "Our World Group"{{Cite journal|last=Shaffer|first=Andrew|date=2012-12-14|title=The Lavender Tide: LGBTQ Activism in Neoliberal Argentina|url=https://repository.usfca.edu/thes/30|journal=USFCA Scholarship Repository|publisher=University of San Francisco|volume=|pages=23|via=}}) was the first gay rights organization in Latin America.{{Cite web|last=Herrera|first=Catalina|date=|title=ARGENTINA: PIONERA DEL MOVIMIENTO HOMOSEXUAL EN AMERICA LATINA|trans-title=ARGENTINA: PIONEER OF THE HOMOSEXUAL MOVEMENT IN LATIN AMERICA|url=http://opusgay.cl/1264/article-27222.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090216165938/http://opusgay.cl/1264/article-27222.html|archive-date=February 16, 2009|access-date=February 7, 2021|website=OpusGay|language=es}}{{Cite journal|last=Brown|first=Stephen|date=2002|title="Con discriminación y represión no hay democracia": The Lesbian Gay Movement in Argentina|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3185130|journal=Latin American Perspectives|volume=29|issue=2|pages=119–138|doi=10.1177/0094582X0202900207|jstor=3185130|s2cid=9046161|issn=0094-582X}} It was founded by Héctor Anabitarte in Buenos Aires, Argentina in late 1967.{{Cite web|last1=Justo|first1=Marcelo|last2=Bazán|first2=Osvaldo|date=July 22, 2004|title=Argentina: una historia gay|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/spanish/misc/newsid_3916000/3916945.stm|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=February 7, 2021|website=BBC Mundo|language=es}}{{Cite thesis|title=From International Idea to Domestic Policy: Explaining the Emergence of Same-Sex Partnership Recognition in Argentina and Brazil|url=https://escholarship.org/uc/item/72f582zn|publisher=UC Riverside|date=2010|language=en|first=Shawn Richard|last=Schulenberg}} In 1971, it joined with several similar organizations to form the Frente de Liberación Homosexual.
Formation
Nuestro Mundo was founded by Héctor Anabitarte, a trade unionist. He and the other leaders of the group were expelled from the Communist Party of Argentina for being homosexuals.{{Cite book|last=Encarnación|first=Omar|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nWPRCwAAQBAJ|title=Out in the Periphery: Latin America's Gay Rights Revolution|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2016|isbn=9780190469726|location=|pages=|quote=The group was shunned by all left-wing organizations, and its leaders, including Anabitarte, were expelled from the Communist Party. This action was in line with the treatment of gay leaders by left-wing organizations across Latin American countries...}}{{Cite book|last=Ruvalcaba|first=Héctor Domínguez|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XHNjDgAAQBAJ|title=Translating the Queer: Body Politics and Transnational Conversations|date=2016-11-15|publisher=Zed Books Ltd.|isbn=978-1-78360-295-7|language=en}}
When the group was formed in 1967, Argentina was ruled by the National Reorganization Process, a military dictatorship that repressed LGBT people.{{Cite journal|last=Encarnación|first=Omar G.|date=2012–2013|title=International Influence, Domestic Activism, and Gay Rights in Argentina|journal=Political Science Quarterly|language=en|volume=128|issue=4|pages=687–716|doi=10.1002/polq.12138|issn=0032-3195}} Nuestro Mundo largely focused on bringing awareness to the oppression of Argentina's LGBT community and ending police brutality against homosexuals rather than engaging in political activity.{{Cite journal|last1=Ben|first1=Pablo|last2=Insausti|first2=Santiago Joaquin|date=2017-04-27|title=Dictatorial Rule and Sexual Politics in Argentina: The Case of the Frente de Liberación Homosexual, 1967–1976|journal=Hispanic American Historical Review|language=en|volume=97|issue=2|pages=297–325|doi=10.1215/00182168-3824077|issn=0018-2168|s2cid=85560297|doi-access=free|hdl=11336/72743|hdl-access=free}} Anabitarte described the group's demands as "more reformist than revolutionary."
Frente de Liberación Homosexual
{{Main|Frente de Liberación Homosexual}}
In August 1971, Nuestro Mundo merged with several other activist groups to form the Frente de Liberación Homosexual ("Homosexual Liberation Front"), also known as the FLH. Other groups which joined the FLH included Safo, Eros, and Bandera Negra. This new group was more politically active than those that preceded it, including Nuestro Mundo itself. The FLH eventually dissolved as a result of the 1976 Argentine coup d'état.
References
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Category:LGBTQ rights in Argentina