Abstract
The article deals with the ideas formulated by the anthropologist Néstor Perlongher about the hiv/aids epidemic, whose textual production (journalistic articles and academic publications), adds other ways of understanding his ethnographic research on masculine prostitution in São Paulo. Thus, I address the main issues raised by the author, especially considering his reflection on the “deployment of aids”, an analytical category he uses at different times and texts. I recover how his concerns about the epidemic are linked to his practices as a critical intellectual mediator in relation to the social and cultural normalization of homosexuality.
Aids; Deployment; Homosexuality; Perlongher