Affected utterances: possible relations between homophobia and sport

Author(s)

Rodrigo Braga do Couto Rosa

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: Campinas, SP.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Faculdade de Educação Física
• Defense date: 2010-05-31

Examining board members

Carmen Lúcia Soares; Maria Rita de Assis Cesar; Helena Altmann

• Advisor: Carmen Lúcia Soares

Abstract

This research was initially anchored on a contradictory context that opposes rare and scarce utterances about the relations between homophobia and sport in the Brazilian academic production of Physical Education and the explosion of discourses verified in virtual and printed means of communication, from which it is possible to identify evidence of homophobia in the field of the sport phenomenon that is hegemonic in the present days. Given this academic gap and this media vociferation, this work aimed to identify the utterances of the relation between homophobia and sport in one newspaper and two magazines versed in content related to sexualities and devoted to a public sometimes called homosexual, but also labeled as lesbians, gays, transvestites, transsexuals and bisexuals or, fagots, dikes, queer: the newspaper "O Lampião da Esquina", published between April of 1978 and July of 1981, the magazines "SuiGeneris", sold between January of 1995 and March of 2000 and "Bananaloca/G Magazine, from its very first edition, published in April of 1997 to the one that came out in September of 2007. This research sought to relate and debate on the homophobic utterances collected in these sources under the reflections of authors that comprehend the connections of homophobia and sport as mechanisms that reinforce or confront sexual symbolic order characterized by hegemonic heterosexuality, masculinity and virility. This work recovers narratives of exclusions, aggressions and denials of desires, practices and subjects and also experiences of confront, marked by the dynamics of the "coming out" and the organization of teams, federations, competitions or cheering groups that caused displacements and reinsertion of historic trajectories of sexualities, genders and bodies among sport manifestations (AU)