Bullying homofóbico e educação: possibilidade de superação de um preconceito

Abstract

The present work, carried out in two schools in the city of Pelotas, sought to study the bullying phenomenon, focusing on the aggressions motivated by homophobic prejudice. The research was characterized as having a qualitative, exploratory - descriptive character, and sixteen people were interviewed: two principals, six teachers and eight students. The general objective was concentrated in studying the occurrence of the bullying phenomenon in the school community, analyzing the extent to which it promotes prevention and combat against this reality, with emphasis on homophobic bullying, where the following categories of analysis were identified: prejudice and discrimination in the school environment; suffered or perceived aggressions on the part of students in school and in the family; accountability of the victim: by choice, by fashion, by media influence, by internalized homophobia; the school environment, its dynamics in relation to sexual diversity and the advance of reactionary proposals; absence of transvestites in schools: transphobia; the denunciation of lived or perceived situations of homophobia and actions to combat it. Throughout the work, the concepts pertinent to bullying, homophobia, and transphobia will be discussed in order to demystify common-sense ideas that, not infrequently, also legitimize hate speech hidden behind the mask of "opinion".The movements of the LGBT community will also be brought to work, aiming to concretize actions of visibility and expansion of rights, criticizing the responsibility of these subjects for the aggressions suffered and the need to understand how homophobic hate constitutes a social violence that deprives subjects of access to social policies and, thus, not being able to be considered as merely individual or subjective. Keywords: bullying; homophobia; Social policy.