Corpos e corpus: uma leitura da antologia “poesia gay brasileira”

Abstract

From the second half of the 20th century, an LGBTQIA+ community emerged more concretely, longing for a rereading and change of the world and consuming/producing symbolic objects of a subculture called "gay". These symbolic objects are inserted within the Cultural Industry and the capitalist system, full of ideologies that reproduce the maintenance of the power of the standard human (man, white, European, and heterosexual). The longings were also present in the poetic literary genres and in the construction of queer poetics (loaded with characteristics, such as ideologema, which composes it and differs from authorial poetics). This paper aimed to identify in poetic excerpts from the book "Poesia Gay Brasileira – Antologia", published in 2017 by organizers Amanda Machado and Marina Moura, the possible experiments and constructions of LGBTQIA+ literature, analyzing its artistic elements. For this, using the comparative method and selecting the poetry "Fever 77°" by Caio Fernando Abreu, “Sonetto do travesti” by Glauco Mattoso, and “Poema elétrico do cu” by Roberto Piva, that are in the book, this paper found that erotic elements don’t necessarily demarcation what LGBTQIA+ literature is or is not and/or the queer poetics, which can present a plurality of factors and approaches, reflecting and propagating in the same way – being produced by diverse people (in identity, orientation, beliefs, and social aspects). Although they have differentiations concerning their themes and compositions, the poetry presents a similarity when portraying "Eros" or homoerotic desire. Sex is political, as well as desire, and allowing or disowning bodies that may be desired and the organs that can be sexualized is part of the ideological maintenance of power.