The top 100 LGBTIQ+ artists of Argentina

Argentina has one of the richest LGBTIQ+ art traditions on the continent: from the trans vedettes of the 90s to the Gardel award for trans artists, from Manuel Puig to Camila Sosa Villada, from the 80s underground to today's drag scene. These are the 100 names — all out, historically documented, or a constitutive part of queer culture — who built it and keep building it.

Music

1. Sandra Mihanovich — singer, pioneer
2. Celeste Carballo — rock
3. Marilina Bertoldi — rock
4. Barbi Recanati — rock / indie
5. Miss Bolivia — cumbia / hip hop
6. Sara Hebe — rap
7. Susy Shock — trans artist, singer and poet
8. Paula Maffía — singer-songwriter
9. Lucy Patané — rock
10. Chocolate Remix — lesbian reggaeton
11. Kumbia Queers — punk cumbia (band)
12. Leo García — pop
13. María Becerra — pop urbano
14. Federico Moura — Virus (historic)
15. Benito Cerati — pop alternativo
16. Juana Rozas — pop
17. Ferni — trans singer, tango and folk
18. La Piba Berreta — cumbia / pop
19. Paula Trama — Los Besos, indie
20. Julieta Laso — tango
21. Sasha Sathya — trans urban pop

Trans and travesti icons

1. Cris Miró — trans vedette, 90s icon
2. Florencia de la V — actor and TV host
3. Lizy Tagliani — comedian and TV host
4. Costa — comedian and actor
5. Marlene Wayar — travesti activist and essayist
6. Camila Sosa Villada — writer and actor (Bad Girls)
7. Naty Menstrual — writer and performer
8. Batato Barea — literary clown-travesti (historic)
9. Alejandro Urdapilleta — actor (historic)
10. Humberto Tortonese — actor and performer
11. Mariana Genesio Peña — actor
12. Payuca — actor and singer
13. Effy Beth — trans visual artist (historic)
14. Zulma Lobato — trans media icon
15. Klaudia con K — pioneering trans media figure
16. La Barby — drag performer and TV figure
17. Vanessa Show — pioneering trans vedette (historic)
18. Malva Solís — travesti memoirist (historic)
19. Daniela Ruiz — trans actor and activist

Writing

1. Manuel Puig — novelist (Kiss of the Spider Woman)
2. Alejandra Pizarnik — poet
3. Néstor Perlongher — poet and anthropologist
4. Copi — playwright and cartoonist
5. Gabriela Cabezón Cámara — novelist
6. Ioshua — gay poet
7. Pablo Pérez — writer (A Year Without Love)
8. Osvaldo Bazán — writer and journalist
9. Juan José Sebreli — essayist
10. Silvina Ocampo — writer (historic)
11. Manuel Mujica Láinez — novelist (historic)
12. Oscar Hermes Villordo — novelist (historic)
13. Juan José Hernández — poet and writer (historic)
14. Miguel Ángel Lens — gay poet from Buenos Aires
15. Carlos Jáuregui — activist and author (historic)
16. Tomás Balmaceda — journalist and writer
17. Alejandro Modarelli — chronicler and essayist
18. Flavio Rapisardi — essayist (Fiestas, baños y exilios)

Theater, film, TV and fashion

1. José María Muscari — theater director
2. Pepe Cibrián Campoy — playwright and musical director
3. Aníbal Pachano — choreographer
4. Flavio Mendoza — choreographer and producer
5. Ricky Pashkus — theater director
6. Gonzalo Demaría — playwright
7. Fer Dente — actor and host
8. Santiago Talledo — actor
9. Brian Buley — actor
10. Marco Berger — film director
11. Albertina Carri — film director
12. Lucrecia Martel — film director
13. Santiago Loza — director and playwright
14. Roberto Piazza — fashion designer
15. Santiago Artemis — fashion designer
16. Flor Jazmín Peña — dancer and host
17. Franco Torchia — diversity journalist
18. Ronnie Arias — TV host
19. Diego Ramos — actor
20. Marley — TV host
21. Mariana Docampo — queer tango founder
22. Señorita Bimbo — comedian and activist
23. Juan Pablo Geretto — actor and drag performer
24. Guido Süller — TV personality
25. Lizardo Ponce — host and influencer
26. Gustavo Wons — choreographer
27. Hernán Piquín — dancer
28. Facundo Mazzei — dancer

Visual arts

1. Feliciano Centurión — textile artist (historic)
2. Omar Schiliro — visual artist (historic)
3. Juan Stoppani — visual artist (historic)
4. Sergio De Loof — artist and scene-maker (historic)
5. Federico Klemm — artist and TV art host (historic)
6. Marcia Schvartz — painter
7. Ad Minoliti — queer visual artist
8. Marcelo Pombo — visual artist
9. Alfredo Londaibere — visual artist (historic)

The living scene: FEL!ZA and today's underground

1. Fabián Jara — FEL!ZA's house DJ, the one who finds the hits before they're hits
2. Trakyna — FEL!ZA host and drag performer
3. Zafir — DJ of the Buenos Aires queer scene
4. Juani Cardillo — DJ and Cineclub Scream curator
5. Rodri Peiretti — FEL!ZA's drag karaoke host

The story keeps being written every week: on FEL!ZA's stage, in the Buenos Aires underground, at every drag karaoke and every film club. If you want to see where this list's next entry will come from, you know where to look.