"Contra a moral e os bons costumes" : a emergência do movimento homossexual paraibano nos anos 1980

Abstract

The 19th century engendered a series of body disciplinary policies as an outcome of the power-knowledge regime constituted in the colonial process. In this sense, this work is inserted in the recent field of LGBTQIAPN+ Historiography in Paraíba with the intention of problematizing the agencies, ethics and aesthetics created collectively in what is called the Paraíba Homosexual Movement (MHP). Thus, the objective is to problematize the elements that made possible the emergence of the group Nós Too, a pioneer in the fight for homosexual rights and citizenship in the State of Paraíba. Firstly, we analyze the epistemological conditions of the historical and philosophical production of knowledge on these subordinated subjects using the bibliographic review method. In a second moment, we analyzed the historical conditions of the group's emergence, its activities in the city of João Pessoa and the exchanges promoted by Us. Also with other groups of homosexuals organized throughout the country and other political groups organized in the State of Paraíba. The nature of the research allowed access to multiple sources such as newspaper clippings, photographs, Super 8 videos and archives of interviews already given, thus, as a methodological resource, I used multiple analyzes that allowed for sensitivity