Jorge Horacio Ballve Pinero

Published: April 4, 2023, 4 a.m.

Argentina, 1942: a scandal breaks. Tabloids scream about newly discovered photographs \u2013\u2013 taken by the amateur photographer Jorge Horacio Ballv\xe9 Pi\xf1ero \u2013\u2013 at homosexual orgies in Ballv\xe9's apartment, photos allegedly depicting young cadets from the national military university in compromising positions. 29 cadets are expelled, discharged, and/or punished, Ballv\xe9 thrown in jail, and the government collapsed, toppled by a right-wing coup promising moral cleanup.\xa0\nPre-order our book in paperback for a free E-book!\n----more----\nSOURCES:\n\nDemar\xeda, Gonzalo. Cacer\xeda. Primera edici\xf3n. Buenos Aires: Planeta, 2020.\n\xa0\n\u2014\u2014\u2014. Jugos de Amor e Guerra. Buenos Aires, Argentina: Centro Cultural de la Cooperaci\xf3n, 2019.\n\xa0\nEncarnaci\xf3n, Omar Guillermo. Out in the Periphery: Latin America\u2019s Gay Rights Revolution. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.\n\xa0\nEspinoza, Lucas E, and Rosalva Resendiz. \u201cLos Secretos de La Redada de Los 41 (The Secrets of the Raid of the 41): A Sociohistorical Analysis of a Gay Signifier.\u201d In NAACS Annual Conference Proceedings. San Jose State University, 2018.\n\xa0\nMelo, Adrian. \u201cCadetes de San Mart\xedn | Entrevista a Gonzalo Demar\xeda, que investiga los expedientes judiciales del conocid\xedsimo esc\xe1ndalo de los cadetes.\u201d PAGINA12, 1560903914. https://www.pagina12.com.ar/201169-cadetes-de-san-martin.\n\xa0\n\n\n\n\nOur intro music is\xa0Arpeggia Colorix\xa0by Yann Terrien, downloaded from WFMU's Free Music Archive and distributed under a Creative Commons\xa0Attribution-ShareAlike License. Our outro music is by DJ\xa0Michaeloswell Graphicsdesigner.