Diversidade carnavalizada: experiência e luta LGBT+ na e pela cidade.

Abstract

Public spaces, although allegedly accessible equally, offer possibilities of more or less restrictive usufruct and occupation. The city, as a reflection of the dominant social ideas and values, has in heterosexuality the legitimate and morally constituted norm, which conforms not only ways of thinking, but also the behaviors exposed in public spaces – thereby, the urban life is a reflection of the referred culture. From these understandings, the space-time context of the 2010s is analyzed, when a series of sociospatial manifestations of cultural and political nature, such as “Praia da Estação” and the street Carnival, gained strength in the city of Belo Horizonte from the use and occupation of public spaces in the name of a right to the city. This master thesis aims to analyze the forms of use and appropriation of public space by the LGBT+ community and proposes to analyze different forms of urban experience, considered from three prisms of debate. The first, the orderly urban experience, concerns to the discussion about public spaces composed of political ideologies and conformed by the process of urbanization of cities; the second –restricted urban experience– concerns to the imposition of heteronormative culture, which results as a limitation of the experience of LGBT+ people in urban public spaces; and, finally, the transformed urban experience concerns to the street Carnival of Belo Horizonte (Brazil) as a force which makes other experiences and imaginaries of the city more potent, and creator of flexible territories that can change the norm imposed to the public spaces and subvert the restrictions imposed by heteronormativity, as well. The methodology to develop this imaginary of a transformed city is a cartography based on urban experiences –told as counter-hegemonic narratives of memories, experiences, feelings and sensations of LGBT+ people who experience the Carnival. The Situationist International (SI), an European artistic, political and cultural movement active since 1957, has an important role in the construction of this cartography: it sustains the discussion for overcoming passivity and alienation in the name of an active urban space production, passionate, in order to transform the reality and to inspire new practices and procedures. All for the experience of another possible city.