Abstract
In order to develop abichaperspective, a critical reading of Peter Fry's work on the anthropology of homosexuality functions as a means to promote questions about the identity construction of gays, which is the basis of sexual diversity policies in Brazil. The cultural paradigm that Fry helps to establish by challenging the naturalistic approach to homosexuality provides a place for the bicha in the scientific knowledge. However, a representational impasse in relation to its development marks Fry's work. It results on the reduction of thebichato a negative, as being the opposite of homosexuality. Being seen as extemporaneous and “un-evolved”, however, wouldn’t thebichaproduced within modernity be a rupture in the order of evolution and progress, and therefore a sign of historical deviation?
Keywords:
bicha; homosexuality; Peter Henry Fry (1941- )