A Ascensão dos debates sobre direitos LGBT na ONU

Abstract

The LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) agenda at the United Nations is today quite different from the one we encountered at the end of the 20th century. The rise of LGBT rights debates in this organization began in the 1990s, wich is an important factor in international human rights studies. This rise was due to the mobilization of transnational networks of LGBT activism, which have come to claim and lobby states for the rights of this population, as well as the rise of debates on sexual orientation and gender identity. Considering this, the present work has as methodology the bibliographic review and analysis of documents, reports and resolutions of the UN and NGOs. On top of that, it aims to analyze: how was the process of ascending this set of rights on the UN agenda over the years? Thus, understanding this institution in its bureaucratic character as an organizational platform with international legitimacy, it also seeks to elucidate analytically the strategy of transnational articulation of the LGBT movements and NGOs that have come to occupy the international rights forums and strategically mobilize the production of information regarding this category of rights violations. And, finally, in observance of the debates among the states in the organization, the present research analyzes the political process of negotiations and tries to map which were the countries that mobilized support for the agenda over the years and which maintained opposite position, as well as the gains of the negotiations.