Territórios de vulnerabilidade ao HIV

Homossexualidades masculinas em São Paulo

Bibliographic Data

ID5815326
AuthorsMaria Cristina Antunes (0000-0002-6767-518X, corresponding author)
Year2005
Publication date2005-03-21
Open AccessYes
TypeTHESIS
PublisherUniversidade de São Paulo. Agência de Bibliotecas e Coleções Digitais (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.11606/t.47.2005.tde-15032007-115747
OpenAlexW1738449947
LanguagePT
Citations received1
References cited12

Studies demonstrated that men who have sex with men (MSM) have different lifestyles and occupied different cultural and social spaces.It is possible to understand the HIV transmission and vulnerabilities' factors through mapping sociometric networks and their subcultures.The main goal of this thesis is to describe how sexual subcultures of men that have sex with men, that attended bars and discos in two different districts of São Paulo, occupied different landscapes, and describe subcultures and sexual practices.An ethnographic mapping of two districts of São Paulo, with 58 gay bars and discos was done.Questionnaires were applied in 500 men (Centro and Jardins) about: demographic data, risk perception, sexual practices, aids prevention, and drug use.Interventions were applied during 12 months, with distribution of condom, lubricants, and informative material.Evidences on ethnographic mapping showed that Centro district has traditional and oldest bars, more hustlers' men and travesties, with identity images based on gender roles.Jardins district has refined bars, with image identity based on gay identity.The questionnaire demonstrated that 52% had risk sexual practices with regular partners, and 42% with casual partners.71% did the antibody test, and 5% were positive for HIV.We found significant differences between districts.Men who go to bars and discos at Centro: were poor, less educated, black; had lower risk perception; they where less confident of preventive methods for aids; they have more sexual risk practices; agree more that they don't use condom because passion and because there are medicines to aids.Different sexual subcultures of MSM, sociometric networks, identity images and role performances occupy different spaces at São Paulo city, formatting different landscapes of HIV vulnerability.The concept of vulnerability landscapes emphasizes importance of interventions for aids prevention with community focus, acting on individual, social and programmatic components.Thinking in terms of developing prevention strategies that has the psychosocial emancipation how horizon, beyond the condom use increment, we need consider sociometric networks that occupy landscapes at the city, creating landscapes of actualization/realization of desires and vulnerabilities

Casual · Condom · Ethnic group · Ethnography · Family medicine · Geography · Political science · Sociology · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health · Anthropology · Demography · Gender Studies · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology

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