Por uma Política com “Respeito”: A institucionalização da homossexualidade no programa radiofônico moçambicano Café Púrpura

Abstract

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”. © 2020 Centro de Estudos Internacionais do Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL)