Homossexuais em trânsito: representações, militância e organização política homossexual na Bahia, 1978-1988

Abstract

The production of a homosexual collective identity and the organization of a militancy in defense of homosexuality in Bahia in the 1970s and 1980s are the constituent elements of this research. In this sense, this work has the objective to discuss how was the process of political and cultural upheaval and formation of an organized gay movement in Salvador in the period of political opening and democratization of the Brazilian State, 1978-1988, giving great emphasis on performance of Grupo Gay da Bahia (GGB). For this, use is made of a literature review on the theme, a document analysis (statutes, newsletters, books and pamphlets produced by homosexual militants, newspapers of the time) that make up the narrative of that past, and oral sources that through the analysis of speeches, reverberate throughout the range of representations, practices and tensions involving these historical agents. The importance of the approach also starts from the idea that the homosexual movement, through their performance, displace a series of signifiers and meanings, as well as representations, attributed to lovers of the same sex. Thus, it is more an attempt to set the issue of homosexuality in the historiography of a prospective fight against practices and dominant heteronormative discourse in society.