Locas definition
Locas means “mad women” but it is also an adjective given to sexually deviant people, including women and gays transgressing gender and sexual codes. For instance, in Argentina during the dictatorial regime which also cost us at least 30,000 disappeared, locas was the name of ridicule given to the Mother of the Disappeared by the press of the regime. The paradox involved in the use of the term locas both for queers as for the mothers of the Plaza de Mayo thus becomes clear. As the gay, lesbian, bi and transvestite movements in Chile started to organize their political aims, their opponents did not realize that they all faced a surprisingly common struggle. To start with, the regime of the times considered all as deviant. They were abnormal not only politically, but on the grounds of gender and sexuality as well as religiously (Alhtaus-Reid, 6).