Abstract
Focusing on the experiences of participants in traditional June festivals (square dance) in the city of Sobral, located in the northern region of the State of Ceará - Brazilian Northeast, this article proposes to present the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the daily lives of individuals. Based on a reflection on the intersectionality of gender, sexuality, class and race intertwined in the social and subjective experiences of the June festivals dancers (square dance), we analyze the effects of the interruption in activities of the dancers to the state of quarantine decreed by the Ceará government, about their everyday lifes and about the ways of preparing the square dances. Based on this ethnographic reality, based directly on the speeches expressed by the participants in this context, given the circumstances generated by the new coronavirus, we seek to think about how these people feel socially and subjectively affected by the pandemic state.
Keywords:
Feast of Saint John; COVID-19; intersectionality; LGBTI+ people