Do and Undo Genre
Experiences of Gays in the Police Corporation
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.48162/rev.48.083Keywords:
bodies, subjects, gender, homosexuality, performativityAbstract
In organizations, gender norms act on bodies, forcing subjects, in order to exist, to submit to power, to “games of truth”, to practices of discipline and normalization. In military organizations, being gay is seen as out of the ordinary — both within the Corporation and by society —, since an ideal of virility was built there. In this way, our objective in this study was to understand the doing and undoing of gender among gay men in a police organization. The results of the study were constructed from semi-structured interviews applied to 11 gay military men from the Military Police of Paraná (PMPR), Brazil, who were analyzed through a "craftsmanship analysis" that crosses Foucault's theory of discourse and the perspectives of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). The main results show that gay PMPR police officers undergo, during their experiences in the profession, a complex and multifaceted process of (un)making gender that involves the interaction between the sexual and gender identity of police officers and the normative expectations of the corporation (of that they take part, and, therefore, reinforce) and society in general.
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