“Rainhas da noite: As travestis que tinham São Paulo a seus pés (2022)” [Queens of the night: The transvestites who had São Paulo at their feet] by Chico Felitti

Synopsis: “Between the 1970s and 2010s, Jacqueline Welch, Andréa de Mayo and Cristiane Jordan ruled São Paulo’s city center. Three T people who went through political and social changes, suffered and perpetuated various threats and violence, abuses and crimes. However, their story hardly appears in official documents. There are no photos of Jacqueline with her “daughters” in the brothel. There are no reports or lawsuits about when Cristiane was a victim of pedophilia in prostitution. There are no police investigations into the murders that Andréa claimed to have committed.

Faced with this loquacious erasure, Chico Felitti, one of today’s most ingenious and innovative journalists, decided to set up a complex network of research and interviews to reconstruct the history of three key personalities for both São Paulo and the LGBTQIA+ community.

With his engaging and grounded narrative, Felitti shows what was left out of the bureaucratic record: the tenderness, wealth, generosity and sisterhood of the three strong transvestites who dominated the center of Brazil’s largest city for decades.”

 

The book was released in 2022 in Portuguese by Companhia das Letras.

Photo: Ted Eytan (CC-BY-SA 4.0)

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2022

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Chico Felitti

EDITORES

Companhia das Letras