As a classic social sciences, the construction of equality, brings a pioneering study by the Anthropologist Edward MacRae, revised and expanded with other articles it published at the time of the research. Guided by the best traditions of anthropology, combining observer and participant roles, the author looks at the birth, organisation, division and relative disdeath of the homosexual movement in Brazil in the last few years of the military dictatorship. Still relevant to understanding the role of militance today, the book sets light on its commonalities with other Brazilian social movements, such as feminist and black, who have very much inspired the practices and ideas of activists in these early moments of LGBT political struggle.