Making Out With the City: (Homo)sexualities and Socio-Spatial Disputes in Brazilian “Peripheries”

Abstract

This article makes use of the constitution of (homo)sexualities and socio-spatial disputes in certain Brazilian “peripheries”. Specifically, it is the synthesis of the results of a doctoral research in anthropology concerning “peripheries”, sociabilities and disputes between homosexual men at bars situated in “peripheral” areas of the cities of São Paulo and Belém, Brazil. The starting point of the ethnography was the scrutiny of specific bars frequented by different publics, favouring the interlocutors’ handling of the manner in which they negotiate identifications and disputes, with a view to understanding the meanings and significations given to “periphery”. In this sense, the emic notion making out with the city served as a point of elucidation to qualify and materialise different modes of space production, especially in Brazilian urban “peripheries”, directly interfering in the ways in such cities are accessed and desired.

Rhythms of individuation: time, stratification and youth trajectories at the periphery

“…His own collective sought to provide such a space in Sapopemba and he knew of many others in other neighbourhoods. Similar observations about the growth of LGBT spaces in peripheries are made by Reis (2017).…”

Sexualidades, localidades e deslocamentos em diferentes escalas

“…Em um primeiro momento, mais especificamente no início dos anos 2000, essa crítica impôs a problematização de experiências dissidentes justamente em cidades de pequena e média escala e contextos interioranos, até então, pouco visibilizadas em termos de produção de conhecimento. Buscou-se a partir de então, conhecer a complexidade de gramáticas locais em distintas experiências de cidade e de território, enaltecendo uma grande variedade de modos de vida, campos de significação, emergência de sujeitos sociais e suas práticas, estratégias, equipamentos e negociações ali agenciadas (FERREIRA, 2008;NASCIMENTO, 2018NASCIMENTO, , 2019PASSAMANI, 2018;GONTIJO & COSTA, 2012;GONTIJO, 2014;ERICK, 2019;TOTA, 2015;MARQUES, 2015;FERNANDES, 2019;LOPES, 2017;REIS, 2017;SCHWADE & PAIVA, 2014).…”