Queer ingovernável: da conservadora assimilação ao fogo anarquista

Abstract

Since the late 19th, some anarchists have approached sexuality questions in another ways. They got involved in struggles against the persecution of people identified as homosexuals and standing out themselves in the experimentation of free love and sex, facing other libertarians as a minority among the anarchist minority. By the end of the 20th century, anarchy together with queer exploded, inventing other practices and relationships. Here is presented a genealogy of queer among anarchy, emphasizing queer’s meaning as strange, anomalous, disturbing. Thereby, queer is not restricted to a language or a territory, but rather embodies an attitude that attracts coexistence with anarchy. Sometimes, queer and anarchism come together, mingle, disturb, and transform each other, shaping a libertarian queer way of life. The affirmation of antiassimilation struggles, which erupted against society and the movement – at that time, of gays and lesbians, nowadays LGBTQIA+ –, through revolt expands anarchy as antipolitics by other customs that sets libertarian culture. The incessant clash between antiassimilationassimilation forces sometimes takes place in harsh battles, sometimes in the experimentation of other forms of friends, lovers and relatives relationships. Anarchy and queer as practices are verbs in motion. Anarchizing and queerizing, reciprocally, invite us to demolish borders, also those between us and other animals and beings considered inhuman or not yet human. In relationships, coexisting, anarchizing and queerizing