“Nesse terreiro tem axé e tem viado”: Experiências homoafetivas e sexualidade em um terreiro de umbanda no nordeste paraense.

Abstract

The terreiro Mina Nagô Cabocla Mariana and Tapinaré das Matas, located in Igarapé-Açu, is one of the main Afro-religious centers in the municipality, as it has diferente bodies, sexualited and genders expressions that escape heteronormativity, especially gay men, who inhabt space and enhance the ritualistic dynamics. In this way, the research aims to undertand how the place of male homossexuality is given in Terreiro Mina Nagô Cabocla Mariana and Tapinaré das Matas, either as a wheel or as sympathizer of religion, whose experience are woven with the various sacred gifts presente in space. The experiences, memories and relationships built between gay men and entities were analyzed based on ethnography, which is based on demonstrating the instabilty of the bonds formed during rituals, tours conversations and conflicts. In addition, open interviews with gay interlocutors and entities helped to understand their subjetivities, conceptions and meanings. Therefore, such dynamics (re)produced in the terreiro serve as instruments to enhance contacts between gay men, caboclos, exus, erês, pretovelhos, among other entities that populate the visible and invisible of the terreiro. In this way, I analyze how these dissidente bodies are also parto f the constitution of the sacred in the umbanda house.