Introduction: Same-Sex Marriage and the Collective Moving Toward Difference

Abstract

Queer Argentina begins with the 2010 congressional debate on marriage equality in Buenos Aires. An analysis of the debate on same-sex marriage in Argentina reveals that queerness is associated, for some, with the unknown and the misunderstood, and, for others, with the uncomfortable feeling of having to accommodate new sociocultural models into heteronormative traditions. For everyone, however, the debate demonstrates a unique cultural movement toward engaging with queer systems of knowledge. When Senator Agustín Rossi reads from Osvaldo Bazán’s study, La historia de la homosexualidad en la Argentina (The History of Homosexuality in Argentina) (2004), the closet is made into a high traffic zone frequented by those who recognize cultural differences as a whole, and not just those communities marginalized by their sexual and gendered social identities.