Francisco Badaró Bittencourt (1933-1997) was a poet, translator, journalist, editor and art critic. In 1956,
Walmir Ayala fled Rio Grande do Sul.
At the time there was a movement of homosexuals from the world of letters and other arts, from the South to the Southeast, as a diaspora, even though Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo concentrated migrants: Francisco Bittencourt,
João Antônio Mascarenhas, Walmir Ayala – the first two were members of the team that created the legendary newspaper Lampião da Esquina (1978-1981). Walmir ended up declining the invitation to participate in the publication.
Djalma do Alegrete, Hilton
Papini and Caio Fernando Abreu are others who are gone.
Francisco Badaró Bittencourt Filho was born in Itaqui (RS) in 1933. He was one of the founders of O Lampião da Esquina (1978-1981), an alternative newspaper that, among other topics, opened space for the portrayal of issues related to homosexuality in a literary or journalistic way. Sensitivity and intimacy with words are characteristic of his poetry. He published books of poems such as Caula Aberta (1957), Pequenos Deuses (1995), A Vida Inédita (1996), and Aquela Mulher (1996) and left works that remain unpublished. He is a cousin of the writer Caio Fernando Abreu.
He died in Porto Alegre (RS) in 1997.
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