Abstract

PEREIRA, Matheus Mazzilli. From Public Health to homophobia: spillover and grievance transformation in interactions between LGBT activists and the Brazilian State. Rev. psicol. polít. [online]. 2017, vol.17, n.38, pp. 141-165. ISSN 1519-549X.

In the decade of 1990, LGBT activists, engaged in the so-called AIDS-NGOs, created important net-works with the State in Brazil. In these interactions, health issues justified and legitimized their grievances. The "public health" frame - mainly developed by the sanitary reform movement - shaped activist's perceptions about health policy. But transformations in these interactions occurred in the following decade. How affirmed Sergio Carrara, sexuality increasingly became an independent and specific dimension of the practice of rights, no more necessarily connected to health concerns. Activists started using the "homophobia" frame in these interactions to interpret violence and prejudice suffered by the LGBT population. Which processes shaped this grievance transformation? This article argues that the homophobia frame was partially shaped by a spillover process between the sanitary reform movement and the LGBT movement. In this process, the public health frame offered and legitimized normative principles and theories about social problems that were creatively used by LGBT activists to form their homophobia frame.

Keywords : LGBT Movement; Homophobia; Public Health; Grievances; Spillover.

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