THE GOUVEIA’S BOY THE REAL STORY THAT INSPIRED THE FIRST BRAZILIAN HOMOEROTIC TALE OF 1914

Abstract

The first homoerotic tale in Brazil, “The Gouveia’s Boy”, was released in February 1914. It is the sixth volume of the “Quick Stories” collection of the erotic magazine O Rio Nu (1898- 1916), aimed at heterosexual men. However, O Rio Nu starts a joking and erotic narrative with such a “Gouveia” from July 1906 until the release of the short story in 1914. Such a real character is portrayed in O Rio Nu as an older man with anal sex tare. In addition to fiction, the tale is inspired by a real event that occurred in 1906, involving the Gouveia, including the name becoming slang and an urban legend in Rio de Janeiro of that period. This discovery is due to a research carried out in the newspapers Jornal do Brasil, Jornal do Commercio and O Paiz, between May and July 1906, to verify some news published about the “Gouveia” in the Brazilian Digital Library of the National Library Foundation.