Virilizing the system: the Gay Shame movement and the anarchist subversions

Abstract

Like a virus in the system, infecting the structures of capitalism and heterosexual patterns of living / existing, thus emerges Gay Shame, an American queer anarchist movement supported by the classic principles of cooperation, self-management and opposition to the state. In this text, I seek to weave bold interweavings between the direct extravaganza of the movement and the assemblages of an anarchist, savage, subversive and dangerously attuned to the political and social demands that emerge through the community of abject bodies. Therefore, wrapped in post-structuralist reflections on Gender, Sexuality and Queer Anarchism, I cast my eyes biased towards Gay Shame's objectives and his intervention at the 27th Dyke March held in San Francisco / USA, realizing that the anarchist practices of the movement to the provoking dissidents and fissures in this system act like viruses eroding Capital's immunity, in an attempt to weaken it daily through political microactions in the power relations to which we are inserted.