Meetidos: o monta/desmonta dos corpos, performances e identidades gays na boate Meet-Music & Lounge

Abstract

The Work analyzes the space of the Meet-Music & Lounge nightclub, located in the city of Fortaleza as a territory in which emerge dynamics and symbolic games that have in the movements of the own territory, the bodies and the identities that there are agenciam one of its means of maintenance. Understanding the nightclub as a space that allows constructions of a specific body and identity, only possible from processes involving a re-signified reproduction of masculine life forms, corroborated and embodied by a heteronormative culture, the research crosses empirical experiences lived in crazy and dialogues still very timid with some theorists who base their reflections on the questions of body, gender, identity, fashion understanding that these processes when conjugated result in forms of life, in specific ways of being in the world. Taking advantage of Oral History as a methodological option, the speeches of old and new clubgoers intersect, making possible a cartography of the Metetian territory as well as the bodies and identities that are negotiated there in a "Night at the Nightclub". In this sense, the reflections walk in the attempt to understand what logic imposes itself and makes possible a night of the GAY MEETIDOS of Fortaleza, mediated by bodies, appearances, performances, revealing from this, a territory marked by the logic of regulation and control.