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Child fag or how they told me I was gay

27/08/2018

Promoting humanitarian and supportive training is one of the main focuses of action of the Escola Bahiana de Medicina e Saúde Pública to contribute to a more egalitarian, just and inclusive society. In this way, the institution receives, during this month of August, the play "Criança Viada or how they told me I was gay", by actor Vinicius Bustani, directed by Paula Lice. The show has already been shown to undergraduate classes and campus employees. Brotas and Kabula.

In addition to being an outburst for the actor, for bringing his experience with homosexuality, passing through episodes of prejudice and the challenge of revealing his sexuality to his parents, Criança Viada also brings the verve of combating homophobia. After each show, a chat was held with Vinicius, Paula and the audience, mediated by the People Development coordinator at Bahiana and educator, professor Luiza Ribeiro. According to her, the Bahiana is an anti-homophobic institution and bringing this piece to the institution is an action to combat homophobia: "Bahiana it is an institution that trains professionals committed to ethics and morals, based on respect for difference and for the other. So being here with the play Criança Viada is a very special moment for us – employees, teachers, students – to reflect on our own values, within a homophobic society that has been reproducing discrimination indiscriminately, without thinking. So the Bahiana positions itself as an anti-homophobic institution, which works through dialogue, knowledge, information and art."

According to Vinicius, contact with the community Bahiana was positive in the sense of opening up new possibilities for reflecting on the subject: "When we receive the public, we never know who comes and here, in the Bahiana, it was the first time we performed for a mostly young audience. We asked ourselves if this issue still needed to be discussed with this segment of the population, which has already had a path opened by other people. However, when we come to this universe, we see that it is still worth discussing with them.” About a special presentation given to teenagers at Francisco da Conceição Menezes State School, on Campus Cabula, Bustani observes that the group of teenagers aged 14 to 16 has a better acceptance, but still faces a lot of resistance from parents and older people: "This, of course, is not an exhausted issue. In addition, the great thing we learned here is to talk about issues that we had never raised, such as the health area and the importance of dealing with this subject with health professionals".

The protagonist says that, from the beginning, the idea was to discuss the issue in depth and, within this proposal, Paula Lice conceived a didactic show with a broad bias, reaching from young people to older people: "One of the first things I asked for Vinicius was the one he wanted to talk to. He replied that he would like to talk to people for whom this was new. From the beginning, so we thought about the classroom format so that there could be the possibility of this conversation at the end."

For the 4th semester student of Medicine, Iago Lemos Teixeira Sarno, aged 20, the show was very important in the academic training process: "First, to reduce the general prejudice that the group and the class of medical graduates still have. I think, because they come from a more privileged strata of society – richer, white, religious – she is more prejudiced. Furthermore, I believe that the play contributes to the personal discovery of each one, because now that homosexuality is finally being discussed, some people begin to perceive themselves, at this age, as homosexual or bisexual and I think this reflection is important for them too".

According to the coordinator of the Nursing course, professor Cristiane Magali, one of the aspects of the play that enrich the student's education process is, precisely, the reflection from the health professional's point of view: “As education and health professionals, we we cannot welcome someone in the light of our prism and our lens. Of course, it will pass through us as subjects with our stories interacting, but, as soon as this interaction with the patient takes place, we need to understand that we do not have an immutable knowledge and that the other is different. ”

There will be a special session of the show "Criança Viada or how they told me I was gay" for all teachers at Bahiana, on September 18, in the Auditorium I of Campus Cabula.