Diversidade afetiva: uma leitura sobre os movimentos sociais LGBT de Porto Alegre

Abstract

Social movements are usually characterized as a counterculture movement that seeks, in its daily struggle, causing a paradigm shift of the culture that oppresses them in the social environment in which they operate. The movement of Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, Transvestites and Tansexuais - LGBT is no different. In the city of Porto Alegre where the investigation of this study occurred, the involved movements are: NUANCES ó Movement for Free Sexual Expression, SOMOS ó Health, Communication and Sexuality and Lesbian Brazilian League of Rio Grande do Sul ó LBL / RS. They fight for rights and social recognition against a culturally enforced heteronormativity. This socially constructed heteronormativity defines and characterizes the social norm by the heterosexual pattern, excluding any other manifestations of expressed sexual diversity. However, the discussion of these differences known as homosexuality has not allowed a debate on the emotional nature of human rights and not just sex, in which apparently are focused the struggles of the LGBT movement in Porto Alegre. Thus, the aim of this study is to analyze whether the LGBT social movements contribute to a culture change related to the homosexual universe, especially when it comes to homoaffection. To the proposition of the theoretical framework, which guide the subject, through the comparative method it was conducted a qualitative research with in-depth interviews through structured questionnaire with open questions, besides the analysis of documents, speeches and newspaper articles, which have yielded a picture of the reality of those movements and their actions, objectives and scope of their fight in the city, reflecting the actions of movements as instruments of a possible cultural transformation. From this study, we conclude that the LGBT social movements also stand as cultural transformation agents, contributing their shares to a reflection on the affective and sexual diversity.