Dilemmas of journalistic visibility of violence against LGBTQ+ people and against heterosexual women in Brazil

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29397/reciis.v13i2.1707

Keywords:

Violence, LGBTQ , Women, Visual culture, Journalism, Sexual and gender minorities, Gender.

Abstract

In Brazilian journalistic texts, the difference between the images of cases of violence against cis and heterosexual women and those against LGBTQ+ people are astonishing. In the case of LGBTQ+ people, the images are usually brutal, with exposure of blood and bodies injured by various weapons. The coverage of cases of violence against cis and heterosexual women is the opposite: the images tend to be inconclusive, often showing landscapes of places where crimes occurred, sometimes showing the faces of perpetrators and victims and never scenes of blood or bodies with marks of aggression. In this article, we take the textual instability as a starting point to reflect on the contrast between the ways of journalistic treatment in Brazil conferred to these two violences and what impacts on the understanding about the relations that conform the visuality and the visual culture.

Author Biographies

Bruno Souza Leal, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas. Belo Horizonte, MG

Doutorado em Estudos Literários pela Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais.

Carlos Camargos Mendonça, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas. Belo Horizonte, MG

Doutorado em Comunicação e Semiótica pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo.

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Published

2019-06-28

How to Cite

Souza Leal, B., & Camargos Mendonça, C. (2019). Dilemmas of journalistic visibility of violence against LGBTQ+ people and against heterosexual women in Brazil. Revista Eletrônica De Comunicação, Informação & Inovação Em Saúde, 13(2). https://doi.org/10.29397/reciis.v13i2.1707

Issue

Vol. 13 No. 2 (2019): Dossiê 40 anos do movimento LGBT no Brasil: comunicação, saúde e direitos humanos

Section

Dossiê: 40 anos do movimento LGBT no Brasil: comunicação, saúde e direitos humanos

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