The "normal" and/or "perverse" "homosexual" in Brazil

Abstract

A series of events in Brazil during the month of September 2017 demonstrated the fragility of the apparent advances in LGBT matters. These actions are divided into two groups: against the physical integrity of people in the LGBT community and against artistic spaces that portray non-hegemonic forms of sexuality. This text seeks to make sense of those actions through queer theory. Why did the recent violence against the LGBT community arise in a progressive political system on LGBT rights? It is argued that these facts are due to the fact that the "homosexual" is read in a polarized way either as a "normal" agent or as a "perverse" agent. Thus, it will be necessary to include new dimensions such as race, age, religion, purchasing power, educational level, among others, in human rights reforms.