List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Pleasures in the Parks of Rio de Janeiro during the Brazilian Belle Epoque, 1898-19142. Sex and Nightlife, 1920-19453. Control and Cure: The Medicolegal Responses4. New Words, New Spaces, New Identities, 1945-19685. The Homosexual Appropriation of Rio's Carnival6. "Down with Repression: More Love and More Desire," 1969-19807. ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex