Espaço, lugar e sentidos: homossexualidade, consumo e produção de subjetividades na cidade de São Paulo

Abstract

This article approaches the relations among places, consumption and production of subjectivities in the context of the segmentation of nightlife market targeted to men who like other men, in the city of São Paulo. The research is based on a qualitative methodology, with ethnographic observations and in depth interviews. It was developed focusing on the selection of three venues among a bigger circuit of venues related to gay men in the city. A big club, a party and a samba place were selected as key -places and compared in regard of the meanings which are given them by their customers. The intersection among social markers of difference and how they act in the constitution of places and subjectivities related to these places were also considered in the analysis.

Heterotopias of (un)desirable bodies: homoeroticism, old age and other dissidences

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