Travel and Border Experiences in Transgression of Gay Closet

Abstract

In order to go beyond the distortions caused by the economic approach of LGBT Tourism, this work aims to establish a relationship between travel and the transgression of the gay closet, from the reports of these travelers. With qualitative methodological approach, an exploratory study is characterized by using techniques of open interviews which analyzed based on a theoretical reference. This script allowed us to understand travel as a field of border experiences in which alterities are established and gays are allowed to get to know themselves through contacting with other stance taking of being in the world and, consequently, knowing their position taken about their own sexuality. In the end, we noticed that the travels are used by gays as resistance of social coercions, which come from the place where they live, and that experiences provided by these travels are essential in the transgression of the gay closet conflict.