Abstract

RIOS, Pedro Paulo Souza; DIAS, Alfrancio Ferreira  and  BRAZAO, José Paulo Gomes. “I REMEMBER TO WANT TO BE HARD, HOW IT IS SAID A MAN SHOULD BE”: gay body building in school. Rev. Exitus [online]. 2019, vol.9, n.4, pp.775-804.  Epub May 15, 2020. ISSN 2237-9460.  https://doi.org/10.24065/2237-9460.2019v9n4id1033.

This study aims to reflect on the construction of masculinities / homosexualities in the trajectories of gay teachers, graduated in Pedagogy, Mathematics and Biology courses at Campus VII, of the State University of Bahia - UNEB, in view of the construction processes of gender and sexuality, in their life trajectories, academic education and professional practice. We developed a qualitative research with description and interpretation of (auto) biographical narratives, produced by six gay teachers. From these narratives emerged the heterosexist and normative educational productions that aimed to transform children into adults. The disciplinary power over bodies in the school context is disseminated by instituted educational practices that hierarchize, regulate and standardize spaces, pedagogical activities, colors, ways of behaving, toys and games, as being adversative, or for boys or for girls. However, gay bodies impose themselves by problematizing issues that cannot be discussed. The subjects developed strategies to cope with heterosexist norms. This has resulted in a new conception of what it is to be a student, taking a queer posture. Being queer functioned as a pedagogical tool to stay in school, as a social right to resolve prejudiced and exclusionary acts.

Keywords : (Auto) biographical narratives; Genre; Homosexualities; Performativity; Teachers.

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