Banca de DEFESA: EVANDRO DE OLIVEIRA SILVA JUNIOR

Coletivo Pontes and the LGBTIA+ Movement at UFRRJ: an analysis of the 16 years of resistance

Coletivo Pontes; LGBTIA+ Movement; Public Policies; Conservadorism; Brazil.

This work intends to analyze the LGBTIA+ movement of the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro through Coletivo Pontes in its 16 years of existence, becoming one of the oldest active collectives of the university. In order to contextualize the actions of Coletivo Pontes, we carried out an investigation based on the Pontes' generations, that is, the different moments of the collective and its representatives. The central idea is to bring varied perceptions about the action of Coletivo Pontes throughout its existence, in order to analyze the sociopolitical scenarios in which these different generations were inserted and how such contexts influenced the actions organized by the group. We based our study on a descriptive and documentary exploratory research methodology, given the scarcity of bibliographic material about the Coletivo Pontes. The investigation was based on empirical debates that run through the entire work, using a pre-structured interview script with the leaders and activists of each generational moment of Pontes in order to know the profile, their political analyses, understandings in relation to Pontes and public policies aimed at the LGBTIA+ population. This research, therefore, points to the importance, not only of political training in collective spaces such as Pontes as a mechanism for qualifying human/professional training, but also reiterates the relevance of groups with identity agendas at the university, either by acceptance or by political action in the guarantee of rights in all spheres of sociability.