Rua Guaicurus

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The Rua Guaicurus in Belo Horizonte is one of the most famous red light districts in Brazil .

Surname

Rua Guaicurus translates as "Street of the Guaycurús ", whereby the Guaycurús are an indigenous people who immigrated from Paraguay to the area that today belongs to Belo Horizonte. With Guaycurú one also designates the Guaycurú language or language of the language group Mataco-Guaycurú languages .

location

Rua Guaicurus is located in the center of Belo Horizon, capital of the state of Minas Gerais , a metropolis with over two million inhabitants. It is located between the train station and the bus station , which is also used by numerous long-distance buses .

history

When Belo Horizonte was designed and built from 1894 to 1897, examples like Paris or Washington were followed by not only systematically designing right-angled street networks with a few diagonals, but also assigning each street its purpose. The Rua Guaicurus therefore initially contained small businesses with industrial production. It also connected the train station via the bus station and its forecourt to the Lagoinha district , where the entertainment venues were located. Over time, other businesses also settled there, as well as grain shops run by Syrian immigrants, who mainly settled in this part of the city.

Since the Arrudas river surrounding the center frequently overflowed, businesses moved to higher-lying regions and replaced them with bars and cabarets with offers for men from different social classes. The more elegant establishments offered live music and prostitutes imported from Europe , while the simpler ones made do with local girls. The most famous cabaret was called Palácio (palace) and had its own radio program under the direction of an artistic director. Many prostitutes worked here at the height of their careers, and later ended up in the "Curral das Éguas" (mare paddock or mare stable), a brothel that was only cabaret in name, but actually only offered women in dark, shabby rooms age, drug abuse or illness were no longer tolerated in other facilities. In the course of time the elegant houses disappeared and the Rua Guaicurus including the adjacent parts of the Rua Sao Paulo became a zone for simple prostitutes in which the last described type of houses became the rule.

The Rua Guaicurus is the seat of the organization Aprosmig (Associação das Prostitutas de Minas Gerais, in German: Organization of Prostitutes in Minas Gerais), which among other things became known for organizing the annual "Miss Prostitute" beauty contest , the prostitute before the World Cup In 2014 and the 2016 Olympic Games in Brazil, it offered English courses tailored to the needs of women, gave prostitutes, even those who work on the street, the opportunity to make cashless payments and runs a small sex museum . The Aprosmig defends the whorehouse against hostility of some politicians who want to close it, and sweeps out that the houses to give women the opportunity protected from pimps and violence at work.

Trivia

The most famous prostitute on Rua Guaicurus is said to have been Hilda Furacão in the 1960s, who was portrayed in the book of the same name by Roberto Drummond. Other prostitutes who have worked there temporarily are the Brazilian writers and activists Gabriela Leite and Petala Parreira.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rua dos Guaicurus: Patrimônio, memória e apagamentos sociais (Rua Guaicurus: Social Heritage, Remembrance and Forget)  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.congresso2016.congressohistoriajatai.org  
  2. ↑ Mais de 2,000 mulheres serão afetadas (More than 2000 women are affected)
  3. ↑ Luciana Teixeira de Andrade e Alexandre Eustáquio Teixeira: A territorialidade da prostituição em Belo Horizonte (The zone of prostitution in Belo Horizonte), p.141ss e 148ss
  4. ↑ a b Christina Camargo: Associação das Prostitutas de Minas Gerais tem cartilha sobre tráfico de pessoas . On August 16, 2016 from fundodireitoshumanos.org.br, accessed on November 7, 2018
  5. ↑ Globo: Miss Prostituta 2014
  6. ^ Süddeutsche Zeitung: Free English courses for prostitutes
  7. ^ Preparing millions of Prostitutes for the World Cup
  8. ↑ Prostitutes in Belo Horizonte receive free English lessons to prepare for the World Cup (Portuguese)
  9. ↑ Museu do Sexo conta as histórias das prostitutas da Guaicurus, em BH
  10. ^ Homepage of the Sex Museum or the Museum of Prostitutes
  11. ↑ Hoje em dia: Esperança para a Rua Guaicurus (Hope for the Rua Guaicurus)
  12. ↑ In English: Hilda Hurricane
  13. ↑ Gabriela Leite: Filha, mãe, avó e puta: a história de uma mulher que decidiu ser prostituta (daughter, mother, grandma and hooker: the story of a woman who decided to be a prostitute) . Objetiva, 2008, ISBN 978-85-7302-924-6 , pp. 161 , p. 80ff .
  14. ^ Petala Parreira: Books (Portuguese and German). Retrieved August 17, 2018 .

Coordinates: 19 ° 54 ′ 54.8 ″  S , 43 ° 56 ′ 12.8 ″  W.