Na discursivização da Revista Junior: marcas da construção de uma identidade gay

Abstract

Taking into consideration Pêcheux’s and Foucault’s studies about the Subject in Discourse Analysis, and also the relation of power versus resistance, this work tries to analyses in what sense the impress media, more specifically JUNIOR magazine, has given contribution to the formation of a gay identity, and how the readers take position concerning that identity, taking into consideration the discourses materialized on letters from readers. Those letters, published by the magazine, largely, refute stereotypies commonly related to a gay identity, mainly, regarding the excessive culture of the body or the unending search for beauty, and they also show the marginal place reserved by the society for those subjects. It is from the position of those gays who feel excluded by discriminatory social actions that those discourses signify and manifest, constituting them, by that, into resistance discourses.