“Hey fag, be careful: Bolsonaro will kill the queers!” Homophobic songs from soccer fans as discursive dispositive of masculinities

It is suggested in this text that the homophobic chants sung by the soccer fans operate as discursive devices of masculinities. In the scope of our reflections, we understand such discourses as co-responsible for propagating and advertising hate speech against the gay population, as participants in...

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Main Authors: Carlos Magno Camargos Mendonça, Felipe Viero Kolinski Machado Mendonça
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pontíficia Universidade Católica de São Paulo 2021-04-01
Series:Galáxia
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Online Access:https://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/galaxia/article/view/46768
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Summary:It is suggested in this text that the homophobic chants sung by the soccer fans operate as discursive devices of masculinities. In the scope of our reflections, we understand such discourses as co-responsible for propagating and advertising hate speech against the gay population, as participants in a discursive network that involves other modalities of homophobic practices (such as murders) as well as pedagogical dispositives that, in stadiums and beyond, teach about the possible/restricted ways of being a man.
ISSN:1982-2553