Pegação: reflexões sobre o homoerotismo nas cidades

• Autor(a) principal: Clemente, Anselmo
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/21594
• topic: Pegação; Homossexualidade masculina - Aspectos psicológicos; Homoerotismo; Subjetividade; Cruising gay; Homosexuality - Psychological aspects; Homoeroticism; Subjectivity; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA::PSICOLOGIA SOCIAL

This thesis is a reflection on the relationship between homoeroticism and cities having the so-called “pegação” (cruising gay) in public spaces as a starting point. Because of its clandestinity, anonymity, amplitude and fragmentation, it’s a subject of difficult study. Methodology - A research was carried out through documental and bibliographic survey, taking into account press material, legislations, novels, photographs and national scientific production. Due to the relative scarcity of studies on the subject in Brazil, we also selected scientific texts, books, movies and testimonies of international experiences similar to the homoerotic concept employed in this study. Another methodological branch of this study involved field research in the city of São Paulo, between October 2016 and January 2018, with open interviews with four participants. The experiences and the places where these practices take place, which adherents consider to be a matter of secret, have not been revealed. The field investigation also took place in areas in which the “pegação” occurs pointed out by the interviewees themselves and characterized by their free access and gratuitousness, except those places that are already extinct or those that are so famous that are indicated by the practitioners themselves in sites of public exchanges of points of casual sex. Objectives - To find out how such practices, besides producing male performances, are targets of discursive regimes that organize public life in the city. To investigate its association with infamy as the product of a history that tended to criminalize or pathologize sexual acts considered deviant, indecent, unproductive or abnormal. And finally, in contrast, to conceptualize the "pegação" as a producer of homoculture and subjectivity. Justification - The importance of the theme is twofold since, on the one hand, the study of the “pegação” provides insight on its meanings and may give us better understanding at some of the profiles of affective and sexual relations in contemporaneity; on the other hand, questioning the forms of “pegação” inserts the researcher into the center of practices that are yet to be studied further, but that make up the whole construction of masculine subjectivity - homo and heterosexual - of our day. Hypothesis – “Pegação” is a polysemic term that, when associated to male sexual practices in the city, refers to the production of masculinities, virility codes, institution of places, sexual practices, homoerotic performances, figures and characters. Results - The research evidenced that the “pegação” has secular history and its own geography. From sodomy crimes, through the constitution of the homosexual and the indirect criminalization of homoerotic public practices, the “pegação” was registered by religious figures, jurists, city administrators, doctors and social scientists, among others. Like Brazil, where it is called "pegação", this practice is found worldwide, under other denominations such as cruising, cottage, drague, yiro etc, identified in an international investigation that allowed us to broaden our capacity for analysis about this mundane and, in a way, clandestine event. The practices of “pegação” and their practicioners witness a city, vary in degree their heteronormative status quo, express a population of particular affections and, for that very reason, produce subjectivities