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Sexualities and public policies: a queer approach for times of democratic crisis

ABSTRACT

This work aims to understand a public policy of health equity related to sexualities that deviate from compulsory heterosexuality in a context of democratic crisis. For this, queer theory is used to analyze, in the light of categories such as power, resistance and transgression, what lies behind the discursive context of the health care policies of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) population, producing a tension between norm, law, and social participation. It is perceived that, from a queer perspective, the instability of identity and the understanding of the networks of power within the health practices can provide conditions of resistance even in situations of crisis of the democratic state.

KEYWORDS:
Public policy; Sexuality; Gender identity

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