É Verdade que nós somos tantos?: visibilidade, violência(s) e afirmação da(s) identidade(s) LGBT no Brasil

Abstract

As a corpus, this paper analyzes clippings on issues of visibility, violence(ies) and affirmation of the LGBT community that circulated in the alternative periodicals ChanacomChana and Lampião da Esquina, in the 1970s and 1980s in Brazil. The analysis material consists of statements from these thematic publications of the homosexual and lesbian-feminist movement based on the two homopolitical journals cited, in addition to verbal information from the editors of Lampião da Esquina, transcribed from their audiovisual documentary released in 2016. In order to build a selection of covers, headlines and publications, our selection criteria followed the interest in the aforementioned themes, so the cutouts were not made with the aim of establishing a chronology of events, but rather to observe them related to the statements and what was detached from them in everyday life and the LGBT struggle, inserting them into structures of moralizing knowledge-power and codifying their cultural practices and pleasures. From a discursive analysis guided by the theories of Michel Foucault and Judith Butler, we were able to (de)mo(n)strara the tense intersection of the analyzed newspapers with the legal and political forms in a phase of dictatorships and exceptions in contemporary Brazil (a period markedly engendered by a sexual, biological and gender performance ratifying policy), inciting them to manifest contradictions and other forms of power-know decentralised of pre-discursive constructions on sexual identities. It makes us aware, therefore, of the emergence and circulation of an LGBT political language.