Seducing, hooking-up, stabilizing: love and politics among Argentinean gay men

• Autor: Marentes, Maximiliano
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2022
• Institución: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Repositorio: Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:revistaspuc:article/25367
• Enlace del recurso: http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/debatesensociologia/article/view/25367
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Love; Politic; Sociability; Couples; Homosexuality; Amor; Política; Sociabilidad; Pareja; Homosexualidad

This paper analyzes how loving and political trajectories of Argentinean gay men are intersected. In doing so, the goal is to critically review love self-referentiality’s hypothesis operating in contemporary societies and develop the complexity of the notion of sociability to explain political paths. The methodological approach was based in conducting in-depth interviews with 30 gay men who live in the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires to reconstruct their love stories. I identify three ways in which love and politics are intertwined. The first one refers to how politics becomes a principle of seduction. The second one implies thinking politics as a hooking-up space. The third one describes the ways through which politics contribute to stabilize couples. I conclude that the description of those crossroads advances in the understanding of love, relativizing self-referentiality’s hypothesis sustained in social studies of love, and unfolding the non-politics category, included in politization studies.