This thesis seeks to observe how the different agents of the literary milieu of the late nineteenth century, author, editor and literary critics operated in the construction and reception of the work, and of the figure of its protagonist, Amaro, the Good Creole. The novel Bom Crioulo by Adolfo Caminha (1867-1897), published in 1895, is one of the first literary works in Portuguese to bring homosexuality as a central theme of the narrative. It was also the first Brazilian novel to feature a black homosexual protagonist. A novel affiliated with the naturalist aesthetic, but which overflows the limitations imposed by the movement itself. Crossed by various interests such as revenge, sales, the real, among others, Bom Crioulo (1895) exposes a nineteenth-century society that, bound by its Christian morality and the scientificism of the time, placed black and homosexual subjects in the place of abjection and immorality. A naturalistic work that, while revealing homoaffectivity, condemns it to a tragic end.