Homophobia and intersectionality: condensed meanings from a bibliographic research

Abstract

Currently, in face of a neoconservative and a neoliberal growing wave, homophobic practices have become more common and are shown especially when there are other markers of subalternities such as gender, class, race, among others. Such intersections bring power relations that reproduce violence, exclusions and social inequalities. From this context, it is necessary to analyze the meanings conveyed in texts of theoretical productions addressed in a discipline of continuing education for teachers. Thus, the general goal is to analyze the condensed meanings about homophobia and its relations with the intersectionality, contained in theoretical-epistemological texts in a graduation course, in the area of education in Pernambuco. In this way, it is qualitative and was carried out based on documentary and bibliographic research. As a result, it was found that the four texts start from a constructivist or deconstructivist perspective. And that three of them establish relationships between homophobia, lesbophobia signals for intersectionality among gender, class and race. However, it is emphasized that it is necessary to expand these intersectionalities with homophobia and lesbophobia as a field of knowledge since it will allow students to deconstruct naturalized and essentialist senses that categorize individuals as abject bodies.