Abstract

BIZ, Ricardo. The gay identity: from the first homosexual romances in Portuguese language to the movie Moonlight. J. psicanal. [online]. 2023, vol.56, n.104, pp.205-222.  Epub Aug 23, 2024. ISSN 0103-5835.  https://doi.org/10.5935/0103-5835.v56n104.15.

The author goes through novels with the homosexual theme to understand how the representation of the imaginary identity of the homosexual took place nowadays. To do so, the author starts from the first homosexual novel published in Portuguese (The Baron of Lavos, 1891) and from the first in Brazil (Bom-Crioulo, 1895), passing through the wellknown novel in the psychoanalytical circle with a homoerotic theme (Death in Venice, 1912), to get to the award-winning movie Moonlight (2016). The author emphasizes that the image of the homosexual in these novels is based on the rescue of the concept of paiderastía from ancient Greece - where an adult (more educated and from a higher socio-economic class) enjoyed from a pubescent - and how much such rescue contributed to the construction of a pathologized and criminalized image of the homosexual in the following decades, until the 1970s, when the identity construction of the homosexual was established in the molds of a more horizontalized homoerotic attraction and depathologized: mature individuals seek their peers in their similars, such as a gay couple of Moonlight

Keywords : homosexuality; homosexual romance; pathologization; gay; paiderastía.

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