As masculinidades e a melancolia de gênero em jovens gays afeminados

Abstract

The movement of disidentification with hegemonic masculinity and heterosexuality generates a melancholic process in the constitution of gender and dissident sexuality. Youth is associated with the circuit of this symbolic economy as the moment in life that most carries the expectation of its materialization that is male, masculine and heterosexual boys. When young people realize that they are unable to follow this “cultural recipe”, they begin to constitute themselves due to the vulnerability of their identities and the feeling of mourning persists through sociocultural disconnections. We objectively analyzed the determinants of the production of gender melancholy in the life trajectory of young effeminate gay men. We used a qualitative approach, the data were produced through semi-structured interviews, whose systematization was based on the Cores of Meaning, as proposed by Aguiar and Ozella (2006; 2013). We identified that the identity of young, gay and effeminate people is marked by the fear of spending their entire lives as mobilizers of social conflicts that undermine all their processes of belonging and attachment, leading to an inhibitor of all potential for gender and sexuality agency and the a lowering of oneself that causes fatigue and exhaustion of resistance from social institutions.