As experiências da diversidade sexual e de gênero no contexto interiorano amazônico: as formas de sociabilidade homossexuais em Santarém e Região (Pará)

Abstract

The aim of this text is to try to understand the symbolic, socially constructed and culturally formulated universe that has served as a reference for the construction of sexual and gender diversity in contexts that are generally disregarded or little approached in the field of sexuality studies, as is the case of places of sociability. We will present here three analyzes that results of a research that involved observations and descriptions that will allow us to reflect on the experiences of sexual and gender diversity in the city of Santarém, Pará, in the amazonian countyside contexto. The first deals with the forms of social constructions of identities, practices and desire in a selected range of spaces of sociability. These spaces include, in Santarém and surroundings, igarapés, communal party barracks, soccer fields, woods, banks of the Tapajós River, pool table and the beaten ground road as peculiarities of these practices and / or experiences, called here “transit of permissiveness”. The second deals with the categories of “center/downtown” and “periphery/suburbs” from the perspectives of the interlocutors, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, the participant observation in a house frequented in the June period to dance to the sound of boi-bumbás, typical rythm of Parintins, Amazonas, as a place of experiences, identities and resistance. And last but not least, it is a question of presenting a study of the art of researches already produced on sexual and gender diversity in contexts little or nothing studied in Brazil, bringing to the fore data on indigenous sexuality.