Homofobia na escola : as interfaces do preconceito e da discriminação com a diversidade sexual

Abstract

The school is a mystified atmosphere where there is a diversity of subjects with thoughts, concepts, forms of behavior and different profiles. Sexual diversity in school is still a challenge for all subjects that are part of this context. Many debates and questions related to the forms of sexuality that differ from heterosexual patterns in the school environment are still invisible, which is a problem for many teachers and students who lack basic and necessary knowledge and information to work with these demands, besides the obvious or subtle prejudice found in these subjects, who end up ignoring such reality, not opening spaces to address homophobia as a problem that is directly present in the hole society, including at school. Prejudice and discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) in school is a present phenomenon in contemporary world. This question leads to numerous consequences LGBT people’s lives, such as school dropout, lack of academic and professional formation, and, consequently, difficulties regarding entering the labor market, among other problems. The intervention proposal highlighted here aims to guide the teachers of Argentina Municipal School, which is located in populated açuzinho county, city of Lagarto – Sergipe, to work with prejudice and discrimination issues regarding sexual diversity in school. In order to promote actions that focus at raising awareness of the teaching staff, an Educational Intervention Plan was proposed, and it aims to contribute to the deconstruction of concepts and negative stereotypes of educators, with the intent to turning them into multipliers of coping homophobia at school and in society in general, leading to the understanding that homophobia is a social issue that needs to be faced by everybody.