O São João é gay!!: horizontes interpretativos sobre as perfomances trans na festa junina no Ceará

Abstract

This article aims to weave initial reflections on a homosexual appropriation of June celebration in Ceará, particularly since the role of trans performances undertaken by gay subjects, transvestites, drag queens and transsexuals in this scenario, in the year 2015. The empirical cut, at this moment, is based on fieldwork in two competitions in which were chosen “Miss Caipira Gay” in 2015, promoted by Quadrille Ceará Junino, and Fequajuce, in 2015, among them the Queen of Diversity. In addition to this immersion, I interviewed the current representative in the First National Competition for choosing the Queen Gay Brazil, which performatiza the Adriana Séfora. Trans performances in June festivities confirm the theoretical assumption that, yes, all gender identities are unstable and contain possibilities of agency and subversion by individuals, that because we are not talking about a simple staging of a historical process in constant becoming. The instability of binarisms seated in man-male logic and female-female and gay and straight confirm the paradox of gender in June festivals: the trans performances should only be considered subversive when they put in check those same binaries and not when strengthen. If they are not at all subversive because it does not allow the characterization of the male dyad / female, explicit through choreographies and costumes, at least the destabilizing. Keywords: