The majority of research about the confluence of the queer and the literary in Mexico concentrate on the literature that appeared after the Tlatelolco massacre of 1968. Therefore this investigation intends to encapsulate examples of queer perspectives in Mexico before this literary and political alteration of the literature. Two poets from the artistic group los contemporáneos, Salvador Novo and Xavier Villaurrutia, created poetry that illuminates what it is like to be queer in a machista and pervasively homophobic society. Being that both of these men were openly gay and that they participated actively in politics, they were subject to a certain type of discrimination, particularly from those who just began to identify with the communist movement. Furthermore, from this time period the term malinchismo became widely used. For this reason, this research will explore how these queer and subverted perspectives in the poetry of Novo and Villaurrutia contributed to the development and understanding of the concept of malinchismo in the Mexican culture.
