Itinerários desejantes cartografando dissidências no Recife-PE

Abstract

Socio-spatial dynamics in Brazilian cities present demonstrations that are guided by the capitalist logic structured in the cisheteropatriarchy and Recife also does not escape from the expressions of these phenomena. In order to think about the construction of urban spaces that respect the logic of multiplicity and that are legitimated by the LGBT+ community, I propose in this Final Paper the exercise of apprehending the city from the narratives of dissident bodies. The counter-hegemonic discourses generated by these bodies tension the official discourses, the producers of the "official city". The goal is to discuss, from the triad body, memory and desire, the possibilities of apprehension of the production of dissident urban spatialities in the city of Recife. To do this, I use my apprehensions of the city, combined with homoerotic literatures that have some of Recife’s neighborhood as their setting, which gives meaning to the cartography of homoaffective desires produced here in the city. Paradoxically, the marginality to which many of these spaces are relegated here are highlighted and valued as places of belonging and as part of the city's memory. The bodies in transit and desire, formers of spatialities, complete the itinerary and leave their marks on the scenery. Finally, despite the advances in the official discourse around policies that guarantee citizenship for the LGBT+ population in Recife, there are still gaps regarding the legitimacy and appropriation of public spaces by this community. Cartographic production indicates some of the places in the city's imaginary, being an important resource in the recognition of subjectivities so that we do not insist on the reproduction of the prevailing hegemonic norm.