Da invisibilidade à vulnerabilidade: percursos do "corpo lésbico" na cena brasileira face à possibilidade de infecção por DST e AIDS

Abstract

The academical production motivated by HIV and Aids epidemic has impelled researches related to the sexuality configurating new investigation fields, mainly about gays. However, in Brazil, it's not significant the academical production which addresses to the STD vulnerability taking into an account the lesbian identity. The sexual health of women, expected to be heterosexual, was be connected to the unique preocupation about reproduction. Along the course of policies in terms of the attention to the women's health, even facing AIDS. In a more increasing way, considering the heterosexual female sexuality, the female homosexuality has tended, in the brazilian society, to the invisibility towards the medical/ gynecologic speech. The epidemic contributed to this invisibility maintenance by strong beliefs in which the "lesbian body" would be the unique body immune to the infection through the sexual via. This thesis objective is based on the study about the change regarding the speech construction of the "lesbian body" since the first stages of the epidemic. More specifically, how a body that is immune to the epidemic is transformed into a vulnerable body. The hipothesis that guides this paper is centered on the idea in which lesbian vulnerability is the "passport" to the affirmation/ Inclusion of a certain mark of identity in public policies. This way, the field in which the "lesbian body" dispute is drawn regarding STDs/ AIDS is marked by the tension between sexual practice and sexual identity.