Partilha da intimidade e busca de acolhimento: testemunhos e interações da comunidade LGBTI no grupo Lana Del Ray Vevo

Abstract

In the presented research, we discuss the types of self-exposing and the seeking for refuge through the LGBTI community interactions in the secret Facebook group Lana Del Ray Vevo. The point of the group’s creation in 2013 was only to produce content for its homonymous page on Facebook. Nowadays, after reaching almost one million members, the LDRV conquered unprecedented popularity in its host social network. The group has been a strong LGBTI community representativeness ally, since the most of its members are part of that community. It was a favorable environment for the testimonies and sharing of experiences, in light of the community demands for listening and hosting. The research dialogues with Goffman (1985), Giddens (2002), Papacharissi (2011) and Sibilia (2004) in order to understand the self-representations in this social network environment and in the LDRV group, as well as Queré (1991) and France (2004) to understand the guiding principles of group interactions. The boundaries fluidity and the interpenetrations between the public, the private and the relations that are established as well as the interactions intimacy occurred in the virtual environment, are discussed based on Winocur (2011, 2012) and Arfuch (2010), while the social roles played in the group and the relationships that are established in the internet social networks are observed from Recuero (2009). For more, Ricoeur (2014) allows us to understand the self-image construction. From the methodological point of view, the research has clipping posts showing testimonies about the "coming out" time of the LDRV members, using the formulations of Sedgwick (2007) to understand about the "epistemology of the coming out" allied with a recent subject research as Silva Filho (2012), Reis (2017) and Serejo (2018) to set the context that permeates the research. Resorting the netnography, as proposed by Kozinets (2014), the research analyzes the posts, combining it with semi structured interviews with members of the LGBTI community, authors of the selected posts. It intends to understand why the LDRV has become, among of the everyday trivialities shared in the group, an environment in which the participants expose personal, private and intimate life, in the desire to be hosted and get attention.