Conducting comprehensive interviews with far-right activists in Brazil: Positionality, ethics, and other challenges

European and North American literature on positionality and ethical challenges of research on right-wing and far-right movements often highlights the implications of researchers' belonging and identity in fieldwork involving anti-minority groups — particularly when the researcher belongs to a minority group. However, the composition of right-wing and extreme-right groups has changed over time, with the increasing recruitment of female, non-white and homosexual activists as a strategy to neutralize their negative reputation before public opinion. In the Brazilian context, where the right-wing strongly incorporates a universalist and anti-difference discourse as a way of obliterating the social inequalities that structure Brazilian society, belonging to a minority group may not be an obstacle to accessing the right-wing fieldwork, but an opportunity. However, how this belonging or identity is performed, negotiated, and perceived by respondents can be crucial for the researcher's acceptance in the field and the consequent production of data. Based on ethnographic fieldwork carried out online and offline with LGBTQIA+ male right-wing activists in Brazil, this article discusses the ethical dilemmas of accessing, conducting, and handling comprehensive interviews with respondents with whom the researcher shares belonging to sexual minorities, but not preference in political terms. To what extent is it possible to offer a comprehensive point of view on right-wing activism? What are the advantages and risks of adopting an emic perspective for this type of research? How to navigate complex social and racial contexts that require researchers to understand the multidimensional nature of their social positions? I seek to answer these questions by reflecting upon my own experience in the field. I pay special attention to how the perception of my multiple identities and belongings allowed or constrained the bridging between myself and the respondents and how I dealt with my outsider status.