Metropolis and sexual diversity: A diagonal and Latin-American reflection

In Latin America, sexual diversity has been absent in the reflection on the metropolitan until the current century, with the exception of a few publications. In this sense, the following pages want to review the particularities of this issue in some big southern cities from a spatial and sociocultural view. In this purpose, diagonal perspective of the urban territory is coined based on symbolic anchors, offering examples that emerge from the bibliographic analysis and a research in Sao Paulo. As a result, urbanity as an entry key to think about a resignified urban geography.