The coming out of the second closet: analysis of Felipe Mastrandéa's autobiographic narratives

• Autor(a) principal: Filho, Robson Evangelista dos Santos
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Procópio Xavier, Mariana Ramalho
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Intexto (Porto Alegre)
• Texto Completo: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/intexto/article/view/83430
• topic: Videografias. YouTube. Felipe Mastrandéa. Armário. HIV.; Videographies. YouTube. Felipe Mastrandéa. Closet. HIV.

This paper presents a discussion on the elucidation of themes from the realms of private (SENNETT, 1988) and secret (SEDGWICK, 1990) through the analysis of Felipe Mastrandéa's autobiographic narratives on his YouTube channel, in which the vlogger reveals his seropositivity. From this analysis, we aim to notice how the construction of these videographies of selves (COSTA, 2007; 2009) as well as the coming out of the so called second closet (MISKOLCI, 2012a). To this end, we resourced to bibliographies about contemporary journals on the internet and on HIV. Once this virus, as well as other sex-related issues, is located in the field of secrecy, mostly because of its historically attributed stigma, we approached themes such as public versus private, intimacy exposure, and visibility regimes, supported by the contributions of Arfuch (2010), Bruno (2013), Sibilia (2003; 2016), Goulemot (2009), Ranum (2009), Foisil (2009), among other authors. As main results we perceived that the videographies are marked by an imbrication of public and private. In this specific case, the personal dominion is publicized with strategic function, to acquire visibility and to keep a status of web celebrity. Nevertheless, this revelation is partial, once Felipe Mastrandéa gives more importance to the exposure of the homosexual identity and less to the seropositivity. Moreover, his telling he lives with HIV could be used by him as a positioning against prejudicial and discriminatory speeches. However, the vlogger ends up, on the contrary, reinforcing the stereotypes related to promiscuity and to irresponsibility.