It can sometimes feel like there’s an entirely unique vocabulary around the strategies that queer people use to control our visibility in non-queer spaces—from “coming out” to “going stealth,” the queer lexicon is expansive.

This week, I talked with Natalia Milanesio, Professor of History at the University of Houston and author of ¡Destape! Sex, Democracy, and Freedom in Postdictatorial Argentina, about one Spanish word that has particular historical significance to LGBTQ+ Argentinians, and the period of post-dictatorial queer activism that destape encompasses.