“OS LEPROSOS DOS ANOS 80”, “CÂNCER GAY”, “CASTIGO DE DEUS”: Homossexualidade, AIDS e capturas sociais no Brasil dos anos 1980 e 1990

• Autor(a) principal: Brito, Fábio Leonardo Castelo Branco
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Outros Autores: Rosa, Johnny de Moura
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Observatório
• Texto Completo: https://sistemas.uft.edu.br/periodicos/index.php/observatorio/article/view/3175
• topic: Homossexualidade; AIDS; Brasil; Década de 1990; Década de 1980; Homossexualidade; AIDS; Brasil; Década de 1990; Década de 1980

This article analyzes the attempts of social capture of deviant subjectivities in the 1980s and 1990s related to homosexuality and AIDS. The forging of discourses that named homosexuality as being a sinful practice, as well as AIDS as “gay cancer” and “punishment of God” and AIDS’s carriers as “lepers of the 1980s”. From Michel Foucault's concept of the device of sexuality, discursive investments, produced both in the widely circulated press, will be thought through the reports of Veja magazine and Jornal do Brasil and Última Hora newspapers of the 1980s and 1990s and chronicles of Caio Fernando Abreu, in the book Morangos mofados, published in 1982. KEYWORDS: Homosexuality; AIDS; Brazil; 1980s; 1990s.