Homophobic hate speech on social media:

an analysis from the public speeches of the Bolsonaro family

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https://doi.org/10.9771/peri.v1i17.37635

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This paper aims to problematize hate speeches that have been circulating on social networks, especially since the 2018 electoral period, given by the former candidate and today president, Jair Messias Bolsonaro. It tests possibilities of analysis on how the hate speech against LGBTQIA+ people spreads, finds supporters and may be related to cases of violence that have been occurring outside the virtual space, such as verbal and physical violence. The motivations for writing emerge from our attention to these speeches, in view of our link with a specialization course in gender relations and sexualities, from a federal public university, and with gender and sexuality studies under constructionist and postcriticism. We problematize the public speeches of the politician as power strategies to legitimize privileges and reiterate, in language, as a producer of the world and of subjectivities, prejudices and violence directed at dissident subjects of cisheteronormativity. To this end, we used a survey of videos, posts and comments on the Facebook social network of the then presidential candidate at the time and, eventually, of his children, Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, Federal Deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro and Councilman Carlos Bolsonaro. 

Keywords: Hate Speech. LGBTQIA+ people. Social media. Bolsonaro family. Homophobia.

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Marluce Moura Lopes, Assistente Técnica da Educação Básica da Secretaria de Estado da Educação de Minas Gerais.

Graduada em Serviço Social e Especialista em Relações de gênero e sexualidades: perspectivas interdisciplinares. Assistente Técnica da Educação Básica da Secretaria de Estado da Educação de Minas Gerais.

Roney Polato de Castro, Faculdade de Educação, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora

Docente da Faculdade de Educação e do Programa de Pós-graduação em Educação da Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF). Coordenador do grupo de estudos e pesquisas em Gênero, Sexualidade, Educação e Diversidade (GESED).

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Published

2022-07-25

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Lopes, M. M., & Castro, R. P. de. (2022). Homophobic hate speech on social media:: an analysis from the public speeches of the Bolsonaro family. Revista Periódicus, 1(17), 118–139. https://doi.org/10.9771/peri.v1i17.37635

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Vol. 1 No. 17 (2022): Plural Film Culture

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