Abstract

FRANCA, Filipe Gabriel Ribeiro. "I'm gay, I'm cheerful, but I'm not a mess!": teaching, homosexuality and aesthetics of existence. Educação. Santa Maria [online]. 2016, vol.41, n.2, pp.425-434. ISSN 1984-6444.  https://doi.org/10.5902/10.5902/1984644417122.

This text brings narratives produced from interviews with a homosexual teacher for a master thesis. The question examined in the research of the following inquiry: "What are the narratives, experiences and modes that constitutes teachers gay?". Was used as theoretical and methodological framework poststructuralist perspective. From this perspective might be problematized the ways in which the teacher researched will constitute as gay teacher and discuss how this teacher will be producing power relations, in relations with each other and especially how it relates to the academic institution. Coming out as gay teacher organizes the way the subject behaves in school, experiencing an ongoing process of negotiation with each other and with themselves.

Keywords : Gay teacher; Teaching Constitution; School.

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