ABSTRACT
This article aims at analyzing the metapragmatic disputes over healthcare between the official State biopolitics and the actual healthcare practices of queer bodies in the current Brazilian Amazon. By examining official discourses, such as the ones found in the National LGBT Whole Health Plan [Plano Nacional de Saúde Integral LGBT] (BRASIL, 2013BRASIL. (2013) Ministério da Saúde. Secretaria de Gestão Estratégica e Participativa. Departamento de Apoio à Gestão Participativa. Política Nacional de Saúde Integral de Lésbicas, Gays, Bissexuais, Travestis e Transexuais / Ministério da Saúde, Secretaria de Gestão Estratégica e Participativa, Departamento de Apoio à Gestão Participativa. Brasília: 1. ed., 1. reimp. Ministério da Saúde.), as well as the effective operationalization of Health Promotion principles (AYRES; PAIVA; FRANCE JÚNIOR, 2012AYRES, R.; PAIVA, V.; FRANÇA JR, I. (2012) Conceitos e Práticas de prevenção: da história natural da doença ao quadro da vulnerabilidade e direitos humanos. In: AYRES; PAIVA; BUCHALLA (Org.) Vulnerabilidade e direitos humanos: prevenção e promoção da saúde: da doença a cidadania. Curitiba: Juruá Editora, p.71-94.), the research detects the functioning of a policy of silencing and precarious demands of sexual health LGBTI + in the local context, which is confronted by microbiopolitical strategies of resistance. In order to meet this objective, an ethnographic study was conducted (PEIRANO, 2008PEIRANO, M. (2008) Etnografia, ou a teoria vivida. Ponto.Urbe (USP), v. vol. 2, versao 2.0.; 2014PEIRANO, M. (2014) Etnografia não é método. Horizontes Antropológicos, Porto Alegre, ano 20, n. 42, p. 377-391.) between 2016 and 2019 with LGBTI+ youth, in the context of parties, smaller reunion staking place right after a major party (so called ‘afterparties’ in Portuguese) and daily interactions in student shared homes in the Brazilian Amazon, in the interior of the country. Based on theories about biopolitics and performativity (FOUCAULT, 1999FOUCAULT, M. (1999) História da Sexualidade I: A vontade de saber. 13. ed. Rio de Janeiro: Graal.; BUTLER, 2004BUTLER, J. (2004) Problemas de Gênero: feminismo e subversão da identidade. Trad. Renato Aguair. Rio de Janeiro: Civilização Brasileira.), the analytical focus is centered on narrative performances (MOITA LOPES, 2006MOITA LOPES, L. P. (2006) Por uma Linguística Aplicada Indisciplinar. Parábola Editorial: São Paulo, 2006.) staged by LGBTI + subjects, such as which mobilize metapragmatic disputes (SILVERSTEIN, 1998SILVERSTEIN, M. (1998) The uses andutilityofideology: a commentary. In: SCHIEFFELIN, B. ; WOOLARD,K. A.; KROSKRITY, P. Language Ideologies: Practice and theory. Oxford. OUP, p. 123-148.) around the official state discourse, criticizing the place it relegates to the promotion of sexual health care for the LGBTI + population. It concludes that the practices of resistance in the context of precarious sexual health among LGBTI+ individuals who were identified in the situated social experiences analyzed in this article question the official biopolitics and the maintenance of the LGBT-phobic current regime.
Keywords:
health vulnerability; LGBTI+; performativity; metapragmatics; biopolitics; Brazilian Amazon