This article examines the movement of churches in Brazil that call themselves "inclusionary", and identified in the media between 1990 and 2000 as "gay churches." It focuses on the rise of the Metropolitan Community Church in Brazil - a well-known activist denomination created in 1968 in the United States and its transformation into the Contemporary Christian Church. It analyzes how this church established itself based on local influences and a dialog with ideas from hegemonic religious systems. The paper argues that the implantation of this group encompasses regional variations provided by notions that come from the passages and mediations realized by the subjects between their communities of origin and their adhesion to a new religious alternative. It examines some models and images of homosexuality cultivated and produced in this plural movement.
homosexuality; inclusionary churches; Evangelicals; new religious movements; mediations