“…Given this context, my aim is to analyze the dispute around the meanings involving the male homosexual body characterized as bear from the theoretical-methodological contributions of Dialogic Discourse Analysis (heretofore, DDA). If, on the one hand, the articulation of Bakhtinian thought on studies about gender and sexuality may seem, initially, improbable, since the issues about the theme were not on the specific agenda of any of the scholars of the so-called Bakhtin Circle, on the other hand, thanks to the heuristic power of their ideas and reception in Brazil, it is possible, in the recent context of academic production, to encounter the emergence of studies that consider viable, for example, the defense of dialogical feminism, both in theory and practice (Fanti;Boenavides;Martins, 2021).…”