BETWEEN DIVERSITY AND ANTAGONISM: ARTICULATORY PRACTICES OF LGBT DISCURSIVENESS IN THE BRAZILIAN MINISTRY OF CULTURE

This work focuses on a set of programs, actions, and institutional mechanisms of the Brazilian Ministry of Culture (MinC) that began to contemplate the LGBT community during the governments of Lula and Dilma. The study intended to understand the institutionalization of the cultural agendas of the LGBT movement at the federal level. We analyze MinC documents and public testimonies of agents of this universe using the support of Laclau and Mouffe’s Theory of Discourse (TD), a perspective according to which hegemony operates in a movement of negotiation between contradictory discourses, aiming to establish relations of order and social agglutination. We hypothesize that the MinC actions, especially the LGBT culture public announcements, sought to manage the conflicts between minority and hegemonic values in Brazilian society. The sexual and cultural differences embraced by the LGBT movement poses antagonisms that would have been neutralized by the liberal discourse of diversity.

本研究聚焦巴西文化部（MinC）在卢拉与迪尔玛执政时期开始纳入LGBT群体相关的一系列政策项目、实践举措与制度机制。本研究旨在探究联邦层面LGBT运动文化议程的制度化进程。本研究借助拉克劳与墨菲的话语理论（Theory of Discourse, TD）展开分析，分析对象包括巴西文化部的相关文件以及该领域行动者的公开证词。该理论指出，霸权通过在矛盾话语间开展协商的动态过程得以运行，其目标是构建社会秩序与社会聚合关系。本研究提出如下假设：巴西文化部的相关举措——尤其是针对LGBT文化的公共公告——旨在调和巴西社会中少数群体价值观与霸权价值观之间的冲突。LGBT运动所接纳的性别与文化差异，催生了对抗性张力，而此类张力本可通过多元主义自由主义话语予以消解。