Carlos Sanzol - Hembra. Cris Miró. Vivir y morir en un país de...

2016, Argentina, Carlos Sanzol, Cris Miró, Spanish,

Original title: "Hembra. Cris Miró. Vivir y morir en un país de machos" (Female. Cris Miró. Living and dying in a country of machos) by Carlos Sanzol.

The book presents the story of Cris Miró, one of the most well-known transgender women in Argentina. Miró was a symbol of the Argentina of the nineties of the last millennium. Her irruption in the public space is understood only if one takes into account the political, economic, social, sexual, and moral changes of a country in the abysses of the end of the century.

Miró's body, paradoxically, Sanzol assures, became a kind of sign that made explicit the double standard that underlay and underlies Argentines: spectators paid a ticket to see her in the theater, while the State, with its laws, condemned to jail the other transvestites for the mere fact of wearing clothes that did not correspond to their gender.

According to Wikipedia, "Cris Miró (1965-1999) was an Argentine entertainer and media personality who had a brief but influential career as a top-billing vedette in Buenos Aires' revue theatre scene during the mid-to-late 1990s. Miró began her acting career in the early 1990s in fringe theatre plays and later rose to fame as a vedette at the Teatro Maipo in 1995. For years, she hid her HIV positive status from the press until her death on 1 June 1999, due to AIDS-related lymphoma.

As the first travesti celebrity in Argentina, she caused a media sensation and paved the way for the visibility of the transgender community in local society. Nevertheless, her figure was initially questioned by some members of the burgeoning travesti activism movement, who resented the unequal treatment she received compared to most trans people. She is now regarded as a symbol of the Argentine 1990s."

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