El baile de los 12. Aprehensiόn de hombres vestidos de mujeres
José Guadalupe Posada (1852–1913), printmaker
El baile de los 12. Aprehensiόn de hombres vestidos de mujeres
[Ciudad de] México: Antonio Vanegas Arroyo, [1902]
This broadsheet illustrated by José Guadalupe Posada tells news of a Mexico City party that was disrupted by police in February of 1902. Twelve men—half of whom were dressed in women’s clothing—were engaged in a dance, which was enough of an offense to warrant their arrest.
The text mentions a similar dance that made news headlines the previous year, one that included 41 men. That event was reported in a penny broadsheet like this one, using the exact same illustration, and was dramatized in the 2020 Mexican film El baile de los 41. Because many attendees were part of the political elite of the time, the earlier dance was a much greater public scandal. The later dance is important proof that despite repression, communities in Mexico City that might now be considered LGBTQ+ partied on.
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