On hues, tints and shades: subjects, connections and challenges in the Brazilian LGBT movement (original) (raw)

2013, Sexuality, Culture and Politics - A South American Reader, Rio de Janeiro, CLAM/Cepesc.

This article will contextualize and analyze some of the predicaments this movement [LGBT] faces at present, contributing to a reflection about its potential, its limitations and other issues relevant to this and to other social movements. This investment also combines issues dealt with by the authors in recent research (Facchini: 2005, 2006, 2008; França: 2006a, 2006b, 2007a, 2007b). A perspective that emphasizes the connection between social movements and other social actors has been a common thread in this research, facilitating a collective discussion that we seek to sketch out in this article. Although a brief history of the movement is referenced here and the movement’s current challenges inform the analysis, this article will focus most specifically on the period stretching from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s.