As bi, as gay, as trava, as sapatão tão tudo organizada pra fazer revolução! Uma análise sócio-antropológica do Encontro Nacional Universitário da Diversidade Sexual (ENUDS).

Abstract

The Encontro Nacional Universitário da Diversidade Sexual (College Sexual Diversity National Encounter ENUDS) began in the year of 2003, as a place for political activism against sexist and homophobic cases inside the university environment, also being built as a place for the sexual diversity discussion. Nowadays, in its XIII edition, the ENUDS gathers groups and collectives that articulates themselves around the Gender and Sexuality theme and aims to reinforce itself as a space of academic and political discussion. Therefore, this research seeks rebuild the social-anthropological path of the ENUDS, in order to analyze all the dynamics and nuances that occur inside its space, along with the means of political organization, the insertion of new subjects and identities and the dialog with de academy . The first part of the research will take the effort to the historical rebuilt of the editions. In that direction, to tell the ENUDS s History, materials and brochures from the past editions collected on the field along with semi-structured interviews with participants and ex- participants will be used. The second part of the research intends to analyze the categories that came up on the field, such as: group/collective , activist/militant , institutionalized/non- institutionalized and horizontality . In the third part of the thesis, it s explored how it is manifested the ideals of sexual liberation, hierarchy and gender convention dissolution and the political praxis of fechação in the ENUDS spaces, from a central category on the field: the experience . Therefore, I look for the arguments that justify this living , in addition to the limit points and tensions of those idealideas.