One foot out of the Closet, as relações românticas na geração de 1990-2004, enquanto forma de influência social e política

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Ana Rita Gonçalves Lopes da
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10451/56933
• topic: Jogo - na arte; Feminismo; Queer (Teoria); Arte do protesto; Ativismo social; Ativismo político; Domínio/Área Científica::Humanidades::Artes

The game One Foot out of the Closet portrays the experience of several semi fictional characters through all the challenges, ups and downs of their day to day life. These characters were created with the theoretical support carried out throughout this thesis, which looked at the romantic relationships of people born between 1990 and 2004 to discover how they affect their role in society and politics, as well as how simultaneously society and politics affect the way individuals relate romantically. As it is a work of protest art, the theoretical research was carried out from a transformative worldview, analysing works of art but also sociology texts and political articles with an emphasis on the work by Victoria Foster, Shulamith Firestone, Catherine Lord, Richard Meyer, Janet Hardy, Dossie Easton and Anne Anthropy. This thesis also relies heavily on practical support obtained from interviews and the collection of testimonies, building a collaborative and directly informed work from the marginalised diverse groups that it is committed to study. This collaboration and intersection of sources allowed the creation of an interactive, playful and simultaneously serious gaming project. The main factors that influence contemporary romantic relationships were identified as: gender expectations, discrimination based on sexual orientation and/or gender identity, religious and social conservatism, monogamy as a default rule for relationships, among others. The game One Foot out of the Closet provides a more inclusive representation of the different types of romantic relationships in existence, in order to stimulate empathy about their respective challenges as well as foster a critical reflection on these various themes.