Abstract:
Looking at the regulations guiding the June contests promoted as public policy by the municipal government of Belém and state government of Pará, I intend to understand how these documents try to manage the intense participation of homosexuals and transgender people in these events. What do these regulations say? What are the implicit and explicit ways in which the State refers to sexual and gender diversity? With these questions in mind (and based on field work done between 2012 and 2016 in the Belém’s June competitions), I seek to answer them from the analysis of these documents and the discourses that are built around them.
Keywords:
Gender; Sexuality; June festivals; Documents; State