About affections and resistances: An analysis of the trajectory of Turma OK (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

Abstract

This article analyzes the trajectory of the Turma OK group, founded in 1961 to promote sociability among homosexual men in Rio de Janeiro. The history of this group is understood in light of the tensions between different social processes, identities and sexual classifications constructed and reconstructed by the groups of “bichas” (or “queers”) in the decades of 1960 and 1970. The passage of this association from a group of sociability for “homosexual men” from affluent areas of Rio de Janeiro who held closed meetings in apartments to a space of shows and meetings claiming to be a bohemian “Lapa heritage”. The research is based on participant observation, document analysis and in-depth interviews.