Abstract

MIGUEL, Francisco Paolo Vieira. For a policy with “respect”: The institutionalization of homosexuality in the Mozambican radio program Café Púrpura. Cadernos de Estudos Africanos [online]. 2020, n.40, pp.141-166.  Epub Mar 14, 2022. ISSN 1645-3794.  https://doi.org/10.4000/cea.5463.

This article aims to understand the process of “institutionalization” (Douglas, 2007) of homosexuality in Mozambique, based on the ethnographic case of the Café Púrpura radio program sponsored by LambdaMoz - the largest LGBT organization in the country - and broadcast nationally in 2018. Analyzing five of its episodes, we concluded that the Mozambican LGBT movement seeks not only to institutionalize homosexuality through discourses, symbols and values, but also from a specific political perspective, namely, a politics of “base” of non-violent confrontation against the wider society. In this sense, the data lead to reflection on an important native category in local homosexual semantics, “tolerance”.

Keywords : Africa; Mozambique; LGBT; social movement; politics; media.

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