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“David Trullo’S Queer Revisionist Photography: Negotiating Spain’S Homonationalism And The Marketing Of Lgtbqi Human Rights As Commodities In Latin America.”, Gema Pérez-Sánchez
“David Trullo’S Queer Revisionist Photography: Negotiating Spain’S Homonationalism And The Marketing Of Lgtbqi Human Rights As Commodities In Latin America.”, Gema Pérez-Sánchez
Gema Pérez-Sánchez
Working with the theoretical notions of “homonationalism” (Puar 2013) and
“pinkwashing” (Schulman 2011, 2012, Spade 2013) and using as a case study
two photographic series by contemporary Spanish gay photographer David
Trullo, I illuminate the complex situation in which contemporary queer Spanish
visual artists must produce their work: they resist homonationalism and homonormativity
at the same time that they must work within the very frames of
homonationalism and homonormativity to fund, produce, and disseminate their
particularly subversive queer politics. In analyzing Trullo’s series, Alterhistory:
Una historia verdadera (2010) — a gay and lesbian, homonormative rewriting
of late nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century …