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COSTA, Frederico Alves; MACHADO, Frederico Viana  e  PRADO, Marco Aurélio Maximo. Political participation and homosexual experience: predicaments between the individual and the collective. Interam. j. psychol. [online]. 2008, vol.42, n.2, pp.325-337. ISSN 0034-9690.

This article aims to discuss the dynamic of the political participation of GLBT’s in the GLBT social movement of Belo Horizonte/BR. This work addresses to several relations and conflicts between the GLBT social movement of Belo Horizonte/BR, the State and other social organizations. Moreover, it is focused on different aspects in the reflexion about the obstacles and possibilities of the political participation of GLBT’s in the GLBT social movement of Belo Horizonte. With this article we seek to indicate the need of enlargement of the politic space to understand the political participation in the contemporary society and to contribute to the construction of a democratic society.

Palavras-chave : Political participation; Social movement GLBT; Collective identity; Democracy.

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