A experiência de amar de um homem negro homossexual: um estudo de caso

Abstract

This research started from an initial inquiry about the experience of love among homosexual men. For a long time, the model of heterosexual love relationships was a reference for studies on homosexual love relationships. Several studies on homosexuality and relationships had homosexual relationship rights and legalization at their core. We believe it is essential to have more comprehensive research to understand homosexual relationships in their singularity. With this focus, this study had the general objective of understanding the love experience as described by a black homosexual man. The study's specific objectives are: to describe and propose the related love experiences and describe and discuss the meanings of love emerging from the reports of a black homosexual man. For this purpose, we used a case study using Giorgi's phenomenological method to analyze an interview with a black homosexual man. From the topics raised by the interview analysis, we concluded that the love experience could be affected by a series of social and psychological issues, such as the search for belonging and the confrontation with social standards and expectations among members of the LGBT community, more specifically, of the gay male community. The blackness brought participant more challenges beyond love and homosexuality, producing a unique experience in which we emphasize the fetishization and sexualization of the black body and participants' noncompliance with the aesthetic standards expected in the homosexual environment.