A coligay dentro da pedagogia do torcer

Abstract

The pre 2014 FIFA Men’s World Cup period in Brazil put football stadium supporters’ actions in question. Worries neglected until then on this place started to appear, including homophobia. In this context in which discussion about homophobia in football emerge, we can see a certain “return” in the collective memory of Grêmio’s Coligay, the club’s gay supporters, active in the 1970s and 1980s and erased since then. In this re-reading, at the same time that the crowd was praised for having transgressed gender and sexuality norms, it also reinforces a series of representations. The good behavior, the party and its self funding were referred to praise this fans and, also, present the desirable contents for the supporters still in activity. In this work, we look at how this Coligay memory develops in relation to the pedagogy of cheering. To do so, we will analyse the material produced contemporaneously about Coligay, as well as dialogues with its former members and other Grêmio fans, players, managers and also journalists, seeking to map some of the possible meanings today for this remembered experience.