The Brazilian Homosexual Movement and its impact on construction of anti-discriminatory policy agendas in the National Constituent Assembly of 1987-1988

• Grant number: 11/05370-5
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: August 01, 2011
• End date: January 31, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Sociology - Other specific Sociologies
• Principal Investigator: Angela Maria Alonso
• Grantee: Rafael de Souza
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This work investigates the social and political impact of the emerging concept of "sexual orientation"and its use by the Brazilian Homosexual Movement in the national political scene of the 1980s in particular during the discussions on the 1987-1988 National Constituent Assembly (ANC). At that time attempts to produce judicial and institutional apparatuses against sexual orientation discrimination did not obtain complete success, but laid the groundwork for the mobilizations that followed during the decades of 1990 and 2000. The objective of this research is to understand why in spite of opening up opportunities favorable policies, the homosexual movement did not achieve the expected success, although it has produced new repertoires of action in the following decades. The central hypothesis is that the moment of political opening given in ANC 1987-1988 produced a set of interactions between the homosexual movement, counter-demonstrations and other social movements such as the black movement, trade union and women and that these interactions interfere with the construction of strategies movement and consequently the results of mobilization. The cooperation and conflict between these political actors have determined the course of construction of the concept of "sexual orientation" and the discursive strategies of the homosexual movement and the impact this concept has received during ANC 1987-1988. (AU)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

SOUZA, Rafael de. \Coming out of the Ghetto\: the Homossexual Movement in the Brasilian transition, 1978-1982. 2013. Master's Dissertation - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) São Paulo.