Por uma história do movimento homossexual em Sergipe : da comunidade católica homossexual no final dos anos de 1970 à formação do grupo Dialogay (1981-1983)

Abstract

In the late 1970s, a politicized movement of homosexuals began to organize in Brazil, specifically in the Rio-São Paulo axis, marked by the emergence of the Jornal Lampião da Esquina and the formation of the SOMOS group, both fruits of a broad cultural process, intellectual and political exit from the closet by homosexual subjects. This movement out of the closet was consecrated by the bibliography as the Brazilian Homosexual Movement (MHB), and these experiences are treated as creators and synonyms of the homosexual movement in the country. Recently, this understanding of the homosexual movement has been broadened to think about the existence of various Homosexual Movements given the multiple experiences and organizational dynamics that occurred in various regions of the country. That said, starting from this expansion of the notions of the homosexual movement category, this dissertation seeks to recompose the history of the homosexual movement in Sergipe, understanding the structure of cultural, social and political opportunities that allowed the emergence of the movement process of political opening, showing its process of institutionalization with the formation of Grupo Dialogay de Sergipe (GDS), analyzing in this way the discourses, actions and active connections of the homosexual movement in Sergipe until 1983, when due to the HIV/AIDS epidemic there was a process of demobilization of the movement. Through a broad theoretical-conceptual discussion, through clues offered by the testimony of the homosexual leader Wellington Gomes Andrade and by documentation from Dialogay, this dissertation will seek to understand how the dynamics of the homosexual movement took place in Sergipe in its early years.