LGBT World Championships: Sexualized Ghettos in Global Scale?

Authors

  • Wagner Xavier de Camargo Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
  • Carmen Silvia Moraes Rial Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/S0104-026X2011000300017

Abstract

Ghettos are marginal territories, in which ethnic, religious, social and sexual minorities were encapsulated and segregated throughout History. Crossed by flows and tensions on movement in the global landscape, such spaces should be reanalyzed under a global perspective. Aiming to reflect on marginal territories of gender linked to LGBT sports events, this article has tried to re-think the concept of the ghetto from the “Chicago School”, and analyze it according to new lenses, applied to two global and specific LGBT world championships (Gay Games and World OutGames). It was noticed that the occurrence of them and the expectations around “possibilities of ejaculation” of bodies, genders, sexualities, and desires, connected to the sports’ world itself, open up the perspective that such events will perform a kind of “sexualized ghettos”, i.e., territorialized spaces from sexual desires’ practices, in the logic of a global circulation of desires, bodies and capitals.

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Author Biographies

Wagner Xavier de Camargo, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Doutorando do Programa de Pós-Graduação Interdisciplinar em Ciências Humanas da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (PPGICH/UFSC), é bolsista CAPES em estágio doutoral na Alemanha (2009-2011). É membro do NAVI (Núcleo de Antropologia Audiovisual e Estudos da Imagem), do GAUM (Grupo de Antropologia Urbana e Marítima) e do Núcleo de Estudos e Pesquisas “Educação e Sociedade Contemporânea” (CED/UFSC/UFPR/CNPq).

Carmen Silvia Moraes Rial, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Jornalista e antropóloga, é doutora em Antropologia e Sociologia pela Université Paris V. Professora do Departamento de Antropologia da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), atua no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Antropologia e no Doutorado Interdisciplinar em Ciências Humanas. É pesquisadora 1C do CNPq. Coordena o Núcleo de Antropologia Audiovisual e Estudos da Imagem (NAVI) e o Grupo de Antropologia Urbana e Marítima (GAUM). É editora de entrevistas da Revista Estudos Feministas e integra o Instituto de Estudos de Gênero da UFSC.

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Published

2012-03-19

How to Cite

Camargo, W. X. de, & Rial, C. S. M. (2012). LGBT World Championships: Sexualized Ghettos in Global Scale?. Revista Estudos Feministas, 19(3), 977. https://doi.org/10.1590/S0104-026X2011000300017

Issue

Vol. 19 No. 3 (2011)

Section

Thematic Section

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