Gay humor in digital midia
Gay Humor; Grotesque; LGBTT; Gender Performativity; Discourse Analysis.
In this research, we analyze the LGBTT production of humorous effect in the digital media on YouTube humor channels, aimed at this specific audience. This way, our intention is to legitimize the existence and production of a genuinely gay humor, delimited by social, bodily, and linguistic practices of its own. Our research has shown that this kind of humorous production uses most often a coded language that evokes symbolic constructions of everyday life, related to the subjective and the gay identity, often becoming this linguistic and full-of-images humorous production opaque and inaccessible in its effects of humorous sense to other social groups, not generating laughter. The grotesque discourse was also identified in our research, constituting a significant amount of the corpora analyzed. To address this discourse in particular, we used propositions according to Mikhail Bakhtin (1999a), Muniz Sodré and Raquel Paiva (2002), Wolfgang Kayser (2003) and Mary Russo (2000). The analysis of the production conditions (MAINGUENEAU) surrounding this humor was of gigantic importance and accuracy, as well as the discussion of gender performativity of the American philosopher Judith Butler and their respective bias regarding to gender and power relations in a Foucault's perspective, taking into account the production of subjectivities and identities, as well as the exercise of resistance and transgression. To carry out this research, we rely on the theoretical-conceptual and methodological basis of French Discourse Analysis, what enabled us to work around the following question: Is there a gay humor?