Youth, Identity, and Homosexuality

The Changing Shape of Sexual Life in Contemporary Brazil

Bibliographic Data

ID3610860
AuthorsRichard Parker (0000-0002-9292-1426)
Year1989
Volume17
Issue3-4
Pages269-289
Publication date1989-07-06
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Homosexuality (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0091-8369 • E-ISSN: 1540-3602
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1300/j082v17n03_04
PMID2668404
OpenAlexW1519643126
LanguageEN
Citations received19

This essay examines the relationship between homosexuality and adolescence in contemporary Brazil, focusing on a distinction between two rather different systems of sexual meanings that have structured the experience of same-sex relations: a traditional model of the sexual universe that continues to dominate sexual life in rural areas, and a more modern set of notions that has become increasingly important in the cities. It examines the ways in which these rather different systems have affected the experience of same-sex desires and practices during youth or adolescence, and suggests some of the ways in which the emergence of a gay subculture in urban Brazil has transformed the range of sexual possibilities and choices currently available to young men and women

Aesthetics · Homosexuality · Human sexuality · Identity (music) · Sexual identity · Sociology · Subculture (biology) · Gender Studies · Gender, Sexuality, and Education · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Psychology · Sex work and related issues · Social Psychology

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