From the body of the sodomite to the public resistance of pleasure: an itinerary for the study of cruising gay men in cities

Authors

  • Anselmo Clemente Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Departamento de Psicologia. João Pessoa, PB
  • Claudia Malinverni Universidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Saúde Pública, Centro de Referência e Informação em Saúde Pública. São Paulo, SP

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29397/reciis.v14i1.1876

Keywords:

Cruising gay men, Public place, Regimes of infamy, Resistance, Subjectivity.

Abstract

The cruising gay men in public spaces of the city is a plural phenomenon, rich in experiences instituting dissident practices and lifestyle of the heteronormativity. It is not by chance that this phenomenon was subjected to many registers of infamy. From the ancient juridical religious sodomy crimes established in Europe that even colonized the pleasures in the Americas to their pathological criminal inscription supported by nineteenth-century science, the cruising gay men became an indecent assault, an affront to the public moral principles. However, the anonymous homoerotic fiures that circulate around the city, establishing pleasure territories in the midst of public space, help us to understand through their traces often captured by the power apparatus, precisely their stories of repression.

Author Biographies

Anselmo Clemente, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Departamento de Psicologia. João Pessoa, PB

Doutorado em Psicologia Clínica pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo

Claudia Malinverni, Universidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Saúde Pública, Centro de Referência e Informação em Saúde Pública. São Paulo, SP

Doutorado em Saúde Pública pela Universidade de São Paulo.

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Published

2020-03-31

How to Cite

Clemente, A., & Malinverni, C. (2020). From the body of the sodomite to the public resistance of pleasure: an itinerary for the study of cruising gay men in cities. Revista Eletrônica De Comunicação, Informação & Inovação Em Saúde, 14(1). https://doi.org/10.29397/reciis.v14i1.1876

Issue

Vol. 14 No. 1 (2020): Dossiê Fake News e Saúde

Section

Review Articles

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