Entre fronteiras nacionais e sexuais: narrativas de venezuelanos “gays” em Boa Vista, Roraima

Abstract

In the experiences of people who cross international borders, race, class and gender are structuring, especially to understand which people are considered “desirable” or not in “receiving societies”. In this article, we turn to sexuality as a relevant category for the analysis of these experiences. With the context of the city of Boa Vista, in Roraima, a region marked by multiple transformations linked to the arrival of venezuelan people in recent years, we seek to understand narratives of Venezuelans who identify themselves as “gay men” (or “homosexuals”) . Through interviews, we noticed how the experience of sexual and national dissent tends to launch one to a state of otherness and exposure to violations of different types. We also observe how the interlocutors, in their daily lives, mobilize efforts to distance themselves from the place of possible moral inferiority commonly attributed to the “homosexual” and “immigrant” or “refugee” subject.