The subject LGBTQIAP+ in the collection of dissertations and theses at the Federal University of Pernambuco

Abstract

This is a research on the LGBTI+ theme in collections of theses and dissertations from a higher education institution. Brazilian universities have collections and collections with a diversity of themes and subjects treated and, in this sense, it is possible to use Information Science methods to study these collections. In this perspective, the present research arises that aimed to analyze the configuration of the bibliographic collection of dissertations and theses that deal with the LGBTI+ theme present in the collection of the Institutional Repository of the Federal University of Pernambuco (RI-UFPE) available on the ATTENA platform, whose methodological path was configured from a descriptive and bibliographical research, based on bibliographic and documentary studies, with disposition and analysis of qualitative and inductive characteristics, configuring a single case study. The results showed that the themes involve combating prejudice against the community and its members, proposing reflections and projects that challenge the social structures that reinforce and validate the violence and marginalization of this population in society. In addition, it was observed that the themes also bring up issues of social movement, progress in conquests for rights and combating homophobia for lesbians and gays, with a predominance of works on male homosexuality, which contest male performance; to the detriment of women, motherhood and homosexual relationships.