Abstract
Based on an ethnographic research carried out in recent years in southern Mozambique, this article answers anthropologically the question posed by a Mozambican viewer about why there are no homosexual subjects in local rural contexts. The central argument presented here is that although the (homo)erotic desire precedes and dispenses with language, the constitution of a subject that is properly homosexual does not. Therefore, cities will provide not only an environment conducive to the experience of erotic and identity experiences of this subject but will offer the necessary episteme for such subject to be constituted as such.
Keywords
Africa; LGBT; history; anthropology; sexuality