Mário de Andrade – writer, intellectual and leader of Modern Art Week – was criticised by Antropofagia’s Revista in 1929 and Dom Casmurro in 1939. In Revista’s pages, the amalgam of misogyny, homophobia and ‘colour bias’ refers exclusively to it. The newspaper Dom Casmurro rewarded the stigmas of colour and gênero to criticise their intellectual actions. However, the issues of homosexuality and echoing attributed to the writer, even if brought to the buckle, are repeatedly avoided in his correspondence, in the journalistic crone and in specialised literature. The social ignorance of the basic individual reality highlights the social oppression and shame that has been created.