Sobreviventes! Violência contra LGBT no Nordeste brasileiro

Abstract

The current situation is permeated by the resurgence of conservatism, regression of rights, counter-reforms of the state, increase in violence and intensification of exploitation / oppression to which the working class is subjected in all its diversity, especially in the case of women, blacks and the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transvestite and transsexual (LGBT) population. The historical period of capital's structural crisis already imposes, in itself, immense challenges on the lives of these subjects. However, the moment is also for the advancement of an ultraconservative and ultraneoliberal extreme right, with strong fascist and violent traits, having as one example the election of Jair Messias Bolsonaro (without party) as president of Brazil in 2018 and Donald Trump in the United States of America in 2016. The legal, media and parliamentary coup against President Dilma Rousseff (PT) in 2016 accentuates class disputes and demonstrates that this world reality reaches the country with great intensity. In the same context, the data indicate that Brazil is the world champion of violent LGBT deaths, even ahead of countries in which homosexuality and gender identities are officially prohibited and punished with the death penalty. In addition, they have registered a significant increase in this violence in recent years. If we consider its regional distribution, for decades, the Northeast led this macabre Brazilian ranking. The social and historical formation of this region, indicates some particularities from the point of view of its insertion in the circuit of the Brazilian unequal development and of the culture very ingrained in machismo, which creates the figure of the socalled “northeastern male” - with courage as a defining trait and the legitimation of violence as long as it defends honor. In these lands, theoretically there would be no LGBT, given that they break with the heteropatriarchal pattern, or the so-called “male”. Thus, our objective in this work was to analyze the main expressions of violence against the LGBT population in northeastern Brazil. In methodological terms, we conducted this research: 1 - under the analysis based on the materialist-historical-dialectic method proposed by Marx; 2 - of qualitative character; 3 - having as bibliographic and documentary research as source of data, through the contribution of authors of the field of Marxism, fundamentally, as well as the data produced by the Gay Group of Bahia on deaths of LGBT in the country, by Dial 100 regarding it concerns reports on complaints regarding violence against LGBT in Brazil, and the survey of the Citizenship Map developed by the Brazilian Association of Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, Transvestites, Transsexuals and Intersex (ABGLT);; 4 - with the years of the coup, from 2016 to 2019, as a time frame. As a result, we point out that the main violence against LGBT in the region has the family and the State as executioners, and violent death, as its predominant expressions, whether through homicides or suicides, discrimination, physical and psychological violence, and the violation of rights through the action or omission of the State. As a synthesis, it is learned that these are times of ultraconservative and violent attack on the humanity of this population, individually and collectively, as well as on women and blacks. "We are under attack", it's time to react!