POOR AND RICH YOUNG GAYS MEANINGFULNESS ABOUT MASCULINITY AT SCHOOL

• Autor(a) principal: Amaral, Marcos Martins
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Bock, Ana Mercês Bahia
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Olh@res (Universidade Federal de São Paulo)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.unifesp.br/index.php/olhares/article/view/11103
• topic: Young Gay Men; Gay Masculinity; Subjective Dimension; Jovens gays; Masculinidade Gay; Dimensão Subjetiva

This article presents research on the school role in the gay masculinity constitution. With that purpose we studied the meanings constituted by self-declared gay students and their experiences at school, focusing on their sexual orientation constitution. The study also considered the fact that we live in a society marked by social inequality, believing that this aspect could be determinant in experiences and meanings. The conversation instrument was applied with two groups of adolescent men self-declared gay, poor, and rich from São Paulo city high schools. The results were analyzed through the Social-Historical Psychology perspective by the Nuclei of Meaning procedure. The dialectical movement of analysis allowed us to affirm that the school is a fundamental social institution in the masculinity constitution of gay adolescents and that institutions need to overcome its strangeness regarding their social functions.