Jardim de mamulengos no alto sertão de Alagoas: formação histórica do grupo de gays e lésbicas de Delmiro Gouveia – AL (2008-2023)

Abstract

This work analyzes the historical formation of the Grupo de Gays e Lésbicas de Delmiro Gouveia (GLAD), the first formalized LGBTQIA+ activism movement in the city. The context of structural LGBTphobia (MOREIRA, 2017) in which our society finds itself not only causes various types of violence, but also erasures the LGBTQIA+ population. Our research is contribution to filling gaps in the local historiography on the History of Sexuality (ENGEL, 1997) in this city. Therefore, we aim to analyze LGBTphobia in Delmiro Gouveia (AL), the power relations, practices of resistance and confrontation engendered from the historical formation of GLAD, in a historical perspective. In order to establish a framework of memory that allows us to study these underground memories (POLLAK, 1992), we undertake the methodology of Oral History (H.O.) (ALBERTI, 2013; DELGADO, 2010) in the execution of semi-structured interviews and consequently the production of oral documents that together the other sources collected, such as minutes, photographs, journalistic articles, pamphlets, web links, attendance documents and plans, served us as a body of analysis to develop this research.