Práticas discursivas de colonialidade no aplicativo Grindr: a masculinidade homoerótica patologizada

Abstract

From the perspective of Applied Linguistics, this article aims to analyze homoerotic masculinity languages and discourses built and (re)produced on Grindr, a social networking app for gay people. Discursive practices are understood to be motivated by ideological choices that provoke and perpetuate different effects on the social world: normalization and control of certain views over others. So, this investigation is based on studies on coloniality of power, queer studies and studies on masculinities. For the interpretations, we considered the information related to the Grindr layout, the categories related to user profile and 167 user profiles. The results show a pathologized homoerotic masculinity and (re)produced, under the aegis of a hegemonic masculinity, based on socialized colonial discourses in a regime of cultural terrorism.