Abstract
The paper evaluates some critiques related to the gender performativity theory, created by Judith Butler, and proposes the perfechatividade to think about the gender performativity by means of researches about flamboyant / or effeminate gays performed in Salvador. To accomplish this, the text divides the criticism to Butler into two blocks and explains how she expanded the gender performativity theory and, at the same time, responded to its critics. By doing so, Butler improved her theory but used a distinction between performance and performativity that can be problematized through performance studies and through what we are naming as perfechatividade.
Gender Performativity; Performance; Sexuality; Queer