Luiz Mott

Luiz Mott is a former Professor of History and Anthropology at the Universidade Federal da Bahia. He is a pioneer in the history of sodomy and homosexual relationships in the Portuguese world. Among his numerous essays, “Pagode português: a subcultura gay em Portugal nos tempos inquisitoriais”, in Ciência e Cultura (1980); “Love’s Labors Lost: Five Letters from a Seventeenth-Century Portuguese Sodomite”, Journal of Homosexuality (1988); and “Crypto-Sodomites in Colonial Brazil”, in Infamous Desire: Male Homosexuality in Colonial Latin America, ed. by P. Sigal (Chicago, 2003).