Abstract

BELARMINO, Victor Hugo  and  DIMENSTEIN, Magda Diniz Bezerra. Urban Gay City Experience: An Integrative Review. Rev. Subj. [online]. 2021, vol.21, n.3, pp.1-13. ISSN 2359-0769.  https://doi.org/10.5020/23590777.rs.v21i2.e11060.

The urban experience of gay men is of social and academic relevance since it points to modes of subjectivation and circulation in the city that give new meaning to the expected uses of spaces, subverting the mechanisms of exclusion, disciplining, cleaning, and segregation of bodies considered abject and undesirable. In this sense, we sought to know how the urban experience of cisgender gay men has been addressed in the scientific literature. Therefore, an integrative literature review of articles indexed in the CAPES journal portal published until April 2020 was carried out, based on the descriptors urban experience (is/exact) AND gay, urban experience (is/exact) AND homosexual?, city AND homosexual? and city AND gay. We found 29 publications explored through thematic analysis. It was observed that the theme has grown in the number of publications mostly investigated in the Human Sciences, based on a qualitative approach of empirical studies carried out by male Latin American researchers. Two axes of analysis condense the main discussions: (1) Management of differences in the city; and (2) homosociability and fragmentation of urban experiences. The first addresses the articulation between the processes of gender-gentrification of spaces and the social markers of difference: public spaces, commercial/consumer/leisure establishments, and virtual environments that present different degrees of openness to the management of differences in the city. The second explores homosexual relationships mediated by social norms and power relations, revealing homosexuality shattered in different stereotypes. The concentration in metropolitan cities, in spaces and moments of leisure/entertainment, or uses mediated by consumption, are several limitations of these studies as they reinforce a global gay model derailed from everyday experiences. Therefore, subjects such as "maricona", the "black fag" and the "effeminate" contradict even more the homogenizing discourses and recipes of living, cracking cities to welcome differences.

Keywords : urban experience; homosexuality; gay; city.

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