Green’s legacy to the study of gender and sexuality has been field defining. While Beyond Carnival (1999) inaugurated novel approaches to the study of homosexuality in Brazil, Green’s body of work consistently considers the interplay of gender/sexuality and the sociopolitical arena. In this first panel, the four papers presented will showcase the impact of such work highlighting some of the emerging scholarship in the field. Ben Cowan will consider how precepts of hypermasculinity engaged conservative notions of counterinsurgency that fueled support for the regime. In similar fashion, exploring how gender configurations have been central to sustaining authoritarianism, Marina Adams will present on the critical participation of women for the creation of the regime’s gender ideology. Augusta da Silveira de Oliveira and Meg Weeks, on the other hand, will turn to the daily impact of repression and the emerging organizations in opposition to the regime. Da Silveira will do so through rescuing a rich history of lesbian organizing and community building, while Weeks will focus on the sex-worker movement and their tireless anti-violence work as it pertains to the re-democratization period. Finally, drawing from her own work on gender in Brazil, the panel’s chair Paula Halperin will offer commentary tracing mutual connections between the presentations and the impact of Green’s legacy.