State LGBTIphobia in the making of death policies: social insecurity, negligence and hate crimes

Abstract

This paper deals with the Inter-American Human Rights System (IACHR) as a political arena of correlation of forces between civil society and national states, including Brazil. Based on documentary research in the database of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR), we establish elements for understanding the effect of moral regulations of sexualities in Latin American and Caribbean contexts. In this region, democratic processes that are constantly interrupted by coups d'état and the incipiency of consistent transitional justice outline the contours of a conservative sexual policy, whose values reinforce cisheterocentric familism, whiteness and virile masculinity as determining colonial elements. Understanding social movements, especially LGBTI+ movements, leads us to understand how formal and informal political-communicative networks are articulated, intertwining people, practices, ideas and discourses to combat violence based on sexual orientation, gender identity and sexual characteristics. As a result, we offer elements for describing, interpreting and analyzing state LGBTIphobia in its webs of social insecurity, archival violence and negligence with hate crimes.