FAMILY MATTER: AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL LOOK OVER “GAY MARRIAGE” IN BRAZIL
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https://doi.org/10.5380/rfdufpr.v61i3.46868Keywords:
Sexual rights. Family rights. Homosexuality. Conjugal relationship. Parenthood.Abstract
In this article, we intend to describe and analyse how the integration of stable relationships between non-heterosexual people into family order has taken place in Brazil, focusing on the institutionalization of same-sex marriage in the country. The purpose of the article is, more specifically, to look at the disputes established in the process of its institutionalization, as well as at the social conventions and cultural norms, beside legal rules, mobilized by the political actors engaged in it. In this political process, the languages of law and love, religious views and social conventions on sexuality and family play an important role. They allow those political actors to articulate their different positions on the formal recognition of homosexual conjugal relationships and the institutionalization of same-sex marriage in Brazil. Our hypothesis is that the discourses in defense of (or condemning) the regulation of stable relationships between same-sex people and same-sex marriage reveal that it is, above all, a “family matter”.
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