The city's crisis and the LGBT+ subversion in Belo Horizonte's street carnival

Abstract

The capitalist mode of production that configures the contemporary city shapes not only public policies, but also the forms of living in the urban space, based on the logic of productivity. Two points unfold in this context, which are important in the perpetuation of the crisis in the city, conceptualized from Lefebvre: the segregation of spaces and people, and the relegation of uses linked to leisure and pleasure in the background. Thus, the article discusses the Street Carnival party in Belo Horizonte/MG as a possible transforming element in the forms of use and appropriation of urban public spaces by the LGBT+ community, taking as a base the power relations related to heteronormative culture as an imposter of normative standards, reflected in social relations and in the city.