Quando o armário é aberto:visibilidade e estratégias de manipulação no coming out de homens homossexuais.

• Autor(a) principal: Saggese, Gustavo Santa Roza
• Data de Publicação: 2009
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/4188
• topic: Male homosexuality. Coming out. Management. Visibility. Discrimination.; Homossexualidade masculina. Coming out. Manipulação. Visibilidade. Discriminação.; CNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::SAUDE COLETIVA

Based upon nine semi-structured interviews, conducted between the months of April and October of 2008 with homosexual men between twenty-six and forty-two years old, arising from middle and middle-low classes from Rio de Janeiro and surroundings, this work aims to understand the ways by which these individuals find themselves attracted to same-sex people and look for means to deal with this desire. At the same time, it tries to understand how this difference is dislocated from the subjective level and speak up , what is known as to come out of the closet or simply coming out, a process that seems to occur in a discontinued and incomplete way, since management and concealing strategies of sexual orientation are frequently required before the various sociability circles in which they move through on a regular basis, among which family, workplace and friends are included. The analysis of the informants' discourse, combined with a mainly socio-anthropological theoretical foundation, led to conclude that there is a yearn for recognition, acceptance and respect. Certain mappings , which cover concerns with appearance, gesture and affection display controls and avoidance of places considered to be hostile or little tolerant, were also observed as a way of lowering discrimination and violence risks.