Daily life and the gay urban experience: effeminacy as an analytical categoryThe theme of urban experience has attracted growing interest from the scientific community, since the city is a constantly contested arena, a product/producer of conflicting subjectivities. In this article, based on the effeminate gay urban experience, we propose to describe the relationships between sexuality/gender and the city in the production and intensification of processes of psychosocial vulnerability. To this end, a remote questionnaire was administered to 240 subjects, and 8 individual interviews were carried out with self-declared effeminate gay men. Urban space stood out as a heteronormative and violent environment for effeminate performances. During the pandemic, relations of oppression in families intensified for effeminate gays, confirming that effeminacy functions as a vector of psychosocial vulnerability, a social marker that imprints particularities on subjective experiences and their urban experience, marked by fear and suffering.
Keywords:
Urban Experience; Effeminacy; Daily Life; Gay
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Fonte: Elaboração própria#PraTodoMundoVer: A imagem traz um quadro, disposto em três colunas e sete linhas. Contém, na primeira coluna, sete questões principais sobre a experiência gay na cidade, envolvendo aspectos como: medo de sofrer violência, preconceito, discriminação ou sensação de desconforto. As duas outras colunas trazem os dados numéricos brutos e os respectivos valores percentuais. Os elevados percentuais indicam que a maioria ou uma expressiva parte dos participantes sofreram efeitos de estigma e violência ao circularem pela cidade