Cenas da circula？？o: fragmentos de uma etnografia sobre homossexualidade, gênero, cor e mesti？agem em uma favela do Rio de Janeiro

in this article i discuss aspects of an ethnography conducted in the rio das pedras favela, with focus on issues of sexuality, gender, color/race, and mesti？agem (miscegenation). located in the city of rio de janeiro, this favela is publicly known for two particular characteristics: the absence of armed drug traffic, and the concentration of migrants from north-eastern brazil. in scenes from my fieldwork in rio das pedras i explore how those aspects imprint specific configurations of experiences and representations about homosexuality, gender, and color/race. i observe how, in processes of differentiation, those aspects intersect social structures and hierarchies within that space.