"Viemos pra comungar": estratégias de permanência na Igreja desenvolvidas por grupos de católicos LGBT brasileiros e suas implicações.

Abstract

In this dissertation, I research the strategies developed by Brazilian groups of "LGBT Catholics" to remain in the Roman Catholic Church, as well as their implications. My specific objectives are (1) to reflect on the existing relationships between the categories religion, sexuality and family in the framework of modernity, especially concerning the Roman Catholic Church and the Brazilian context s singularities; (2) to explore the trajectory and discourse of the Brazilian groups of "LGBT Catholics" and their peculiarities; (3) to outline tensions and conflicts surrounding sexuality that pervade Catholic environments. To do so, I analyze such groups discursive production in their various online platforms (websites, blogs, Facebook pages and groups and other social networks, as well as interviews, texts and other public discursive modalities), supplemented as necessary by information directly collected from key interlocutors. Whatever strategies Brazilian groups of "LGBT Catholics" use so as to remain in the Roman Catholic Church are considered in terms of their (self-)constitution as ecclesial subjects, undertaken through visibility and vocalization.