Resistências em rede: uma análise das articulações entre cidadania, comunicação e consumo a partir do vídeo Bichas: o documentário

Abstract

In our society and culture, the fags are repeatedly discriminated based on the stigma of a homoerotic desire and the expressions of gender transposing the barriers of an ideal of hegemonic masculinity. They suffer, as a result, with a lot of violence, symbolic and physical, that puts them in a place of precariousness. Given this context, this article aims to reflect on the ways of appropriation and use of alternative media (especially the Internet) for the creation, circulation and consumption of speeches counterhegemonic about homosexuality and the expressions of gender. Therefore, the video “Bichas: o documentário” is taken as the object of analysis. Published on the YouTube, it had more than 479 thousand accesses since the publication (in February 2016). The methodology is guided in the analysis of the speeches of the six fagots who report their experiences. In general, it can be stated that digital media have a strong potential for articulations to promote engagement in different directions. In the case of fagots, they prove to be an important tool for the demand for citizenship and social transformation.