Do limão à caipirinha: o humor e as linhas de fuga nas vivências gays de Baia Bahia e Raymundinho Furacão no youtube

Abstract

This doctoral thesis deals with humor and lines of flight in narrative videos of the experiences of gay men Baia Bahia and Raymundinho Furacão posted on the YouTube platform. Based on the work of the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze, we follow the problem question: “How do Ray and Baia deterritorialize the normative devices of sexuality, establishing new singular arrangements of life, escaping the sad powers invoked by the hegemonic structures of sexuality and desire?” To write the thesis we appropriated the concepts of event, difference, communication, humor and homosexuality. The materialities were observed with a view to the methodology of Deleuzian cartography, following the lines of forces (molar, molecular and escape), through two themes: family access and street violence. Based on these concepts, the thesis aimed to map the movements of transfiguration of gay experiences produced by humor counter-effects on the Laranjas Bahia and Raymundinho Furacão channels. This research was divided into four parts, which included four chapters: in the first, we explained the event, the difference and the cartography in terms of communication; in the second, we expose the relationship between humor in general, humor in Deleuze and the role of communication in this plot; in the third, we address the path of homosexuality, from identity/representation to the affirmation of desire and the power of becoming; and, in the fourth, we proceeded to cartography the videos themselves, seeking to capture the lines visible in them. From the cartographies, we observed that when they talk about family, Baia and Ray get emotional and do not express their humor directly, although they use their narratives to break with the traumas. When dealing with street violence, both amplify the humor and make it work in their favor, jumping from a report of violence in various areas to a narrative permeated with good humor. In Deleuzian terms, the cartographic videos demonstrate that the selected homosexuals are crossed by two events: coming out of the closet and insult. Even so, Baia Bahia and Raymundinho Furacão, through humor, provide the fruits of everyday complaints, transforming any bad encounter into an engine that enhances their joys and gives new meaning to their experiences, enabling the emergence of new ways of being and existing.