PELO DIREITO E ORGULHO DE SER HETEROSSEXUAL NO TERCEIRO DOMINGO DE DEZEMBRO: OS DISCURSOS DE CARLOS APOLINÁRIO E EDUARDO CUNHA NOS PLs 294/2005 E 1672/2011

Abstract

The studies and discussions about the community of asexual, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transvestites, transgender, queer, intersex and more – ALGBTQI+ – raise questions about the cis-heteronormativy position of/in the society, bringing discussions about the history of the (a)sexualities and identities of gender, aiming to (de)construct the imposed binarism. Through these (de)constructions, conservative sectors of the Brazilian society launch bills in order to (protect) the heteronormativity. The corpus of this paper is based on two bills. The bill 294/2005, authored by alderman Carlos Apolinário, and the bill 1672/2011, authored by congressman Eduardo Cunha. They both justify them by establishing the third Sunday of December as the “Heterosexual Pride Day”. When analyzing the discourse in both justifications, it is possible to notice how the homosexual and heterosexual identities are built in the citizenship dimension. This paper makes, through a discursive bias, a historical course of the (homo)sexualities in some periods and historical civilizations, such as: China, Egypt, Greece, Rome, Middle Ages, Modern and Post-modern Ages, as well as in the scientific and social spheres. The theoretical base of this paper is based in authors that discuss the French line of the Speech Analysis, as Courtine (2014), Charaudeau & Maingueneau (2008), Pêcheux (1993, 1995, 1999, 2006, 2012), and authors that discuss this philosophical-linguistic chain in Brazil, highlighted: Brandão (1998, 2004, 2013), Mariani (1988, 1996, 1998), Orlandi (1984, 1993, 1994, 1996a, 1996b, 1999, 2012), among others. The subject identity discussion is proposed, based on Bauman (2005), S. Hall (2000, 2006), T. Silva (2000), Woodward (2000), among others, along with the discursive bias in order to discuss the issue of the Other. The methodology used in this paper is based on the evidential paradigm of Ginzburg (1989), the qualitative research, even using quantitative data in some moments of the research, in the light of the Speech Analysis, according to Ferreira (2000).