A preliminary analysis of a doctoral research which is being developed with five organised gay groups in Brazil, based on an understanding of the work undertaken as an educational process, since the groups under study are producing new forms of knowledge, which goes beyond the immediate interests of their members and the question of homosexuality. Based on observations, it was possible to centralise the analysis of this work on the question of intimacy and its relation with past-present and public-private. An interweaving of these relations permits the conclusion that the modern heritage is more present than one imagines.
homosexuality; gay groups; educational process