This article explores possible articulations among territorial transits, itineraries, homosexuality, desire, and social markers of difference. It addresses the discursive production of a sense of place in the cities of Recife and São Paulo, based on ethnographic research with men who have loving and sexual relations with other men in both cities. The issues explored include: how the men articulate gender and sexuality conventions, notions of Brazilianness, of regionality, and systems of classifications of homosexuality. Class, race, generation, gender, region, and sexual differences, as well as their relation to desire, are explored in situations involving affect, sexual and material exchanges, often implicating a dose of risk.
space; place; gender; sexuality; eroticism