Concrete Visibility

Queer Performativities in Urban Space

For the LGBTQIA+ community, borders take on multiple and complex dimensions: they are the invisible boundaries between familial acceptance and rejection, between visibility and forced concealment, between the normative codes of cisheteronormativity and dissident experiences that question established binaries.

Queer bodies permanently inhabit these liminal zones, creating alternative territorialities that challenge conventional social structures and produce new possibilities for existence and political resistance. In this context, the street ceases to be a thoroughfare and becomes a stage for affective insurgency. Every scene, every captured gesture, evokes the power of bodies that assert themselves as alive, critical, and celebrated—bodies that insist on occupying spaces historically denied to them.

The materiality of concrete, marked by graffiti, posters, and banners, serves as the foundation for a politics of visibility: the affirmation of identities that cross symbolic walls and break down barriers of silence. Everyday performativity—dance, collective embraces, conversations on the sidewalk—expands the frontier between the intimate and the collective.

Feeling safe enough to stretch their gatherings and celebrations onto the asphalt, these people re-signify the urban space, transforming it into a provisional yet powerful community. It is in this movement of improvisation and mutual care that the urgency of occupying the street becomes evident: a strategy of political and affective survival.