Cartografias do Armário: estratégias do desejo em uma cidade do interior paulista

• Autor(a) principal: Santos, Daniel Kerry dos
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Outros Autores: Teixeira Filho, Fernando Silva [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://www.periodicos.ufrn.br/bagoas/article/view/6549; http://hdl.handle.net/11449/127019
• topic: Homosexuality; Homophobia; Closet; Subjectivation; Interior city; Desire; Homossexualidade; Homofobia; Armário; Subjetivação; Cidade do interior; Desejo

This article aims to present the results of a research about the links among homophobia, subjectivation processes and constructions of gender and sexual identities in a small city in the interior of São Paulo State. The main research question that guided us was: how homophobia regulates the desire and the “transit between the closets” among the so called gay people in a small city? To answer that question we made interviews that were analyzed and transformed into narratives of four cisgender men of different ages who call themselves homosexual or who have had homoerotic practices with other men. All participants live in the same city, do not know one another and have lived most of their lives city. We have problematized how these participants gave meaning to the experiences of regulation of their sexuality that have been aroused by homophobia and by the device of closet. Analyses indicated that the 'closet' can both regulate and oversee their lives, limiting their possibilities of desiring, but also may raise resistance, from which it is possible to establish a relationship with another ethical life, that is, producing other ways of life in the small city.