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Homossexualidade e religião: sentimentos e representações sociais

2014; Volume: 10; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5008/1809.7367.072

2316-7327

Juliano Coimbra dos Santos,

LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy

This study investigated what the representation of homosexuality for men declared homo-sexuals from the influence of religious vision. For both, we investigate what are the feel-ings awakened to discover that homosexuals, which feelings experienced from the inter-personal relations in the context of the church and as represent homosexuality after this experience. The study included seven homosexual men with age between 18 and 35 years who responded to a semi-structured interview. Among the main results, we find a discovery about homosexuality permeated by negative feelings that were reinforced by feelings awaken in interpersonal relationships in the context of the church. However, cur-rently the participants show a representation of homosexuality anchored in biological na-ture, such as a possibility of the Human Being, and that overcomes the negative view ini-tially presented.